How to get loved up plastic free
Get some air mile free flowers or at least some plastic free flowers
Here’s why you want to get both
Add a plastic free card
and chocolates or at least some jelly babies
In like Flynn.
Inspired to give up plastic? Check these plastic free products sourced as part of our plastic boycott and listed here the >>>A-Z plastic free index
Alison grows flowers in Slawit – picked or grown to order – no airmiles, and if you ask for it , no plastic.
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Nice.
Other plastic free flowers can be found here.
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Find the plastic free products we use listed in the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index.
Plastic glasses for beer? – yuckity yuck! Lets have these instead…… steel pint mugs from Klean Kanteen. There is a uk supplier – check the link.
Klean Kanteen STEEL PINT 4 PACK
Stay at home type? Check out this list of plastic free products -the >>>A-Z<<< index
We are having so much trouble with straws, we keep saying “no straw”, drinks keep coming with straws. Next time I go out I am going to bring my own reusable straw and insist drink purveyers use that.
I will choose one of the following
or glass straws
to cornstarch disposable /compostable straws.
That’ll teach ‘em.
You can find out HOW TO …do all sorts of other things… plastic free right here
Buy plastic free drinking stuff on HERE
Or check out my range of Uk based plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index
If you must have disposable straws buy these compostable ones made from cornstarch. You can get them here . Or you can try these reusable stainless steel beauties or glass straws.
Find out lots more about compostable plastic here
Buy more plastic free drinking stuff HERE
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The other day i was wandering through Tescos – recycling plastic coat hangers (of course) – when I came across the greetings cards.
Many of them were unwrapped ie not in the clear protective plastic packets… which surprised me.
So if you need a plastic free card you could buy them Tescos though these are my preffered options…
Carte Postallegreen cards which can be bought from local card shop in Byrams arcade.
Huddersfields own Dig The Earth- locally made cards in cornstarch, compostable bags.
It is worth checking local newsagents and post offices as they sometimes sell unwrapped cards.
This valentines day I refused to add the mountain of plastic rubbish created by buying plastic wrapped flowers.
My cunning plan to avoid plastic wrapped flowers was to buy flowers from a florist and insist they are wrapped in paper. It backfired.
Sadly my florist had no nice paper only an old newspaper.
Not quite the image I was going for…. but still it’s better than more plastic rubbish in my bin.
Find out more about plastic, the boycott and us here
Find more plastic free products in the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index.
You don’t even want to know how many plastic wrapped roses we are going to get through on this one Valentine’s day. Oh you do? According to the Flowers & Plants Association, “sales of all fresh flowers double on Valentine’s day, with over 9 million red roses being given in the UK. Worldwide, billions of roses – mostly red – are traded on this one day alone.”
A mind bending statistic that raises numerous concerns – however as this is a plastic obsessed blog lets think about the amount of rubbish 9 million roses will create.
Now some people may tell you that flowers come cellophane wrapped and that cellophane is a plant based plastic and so biodegradable. Cellophane was indeed a plant based plastic. However as most piano keys are no longer made of ivory most cellophane is now longer plant derived. The term cellophane has come to used to describe the petroleum based plastic product that looks and feels just like it.
So 9 million roses, many of them wrapped in plastic, thats in the uk alone -arghhhh.
So this year my husband will be going to a florist buying one bloom and insisting that it is wrapped in paper.
It will of course be a complete suprise to me.
The purty picture is Valentines Day Red Rose Originally uploaded by Justin Lucarelli
Valentines day -need a card? so check these out
Huddersfield based company and cute cards and plastic free – ooohh baby that feels really good….
Dont like wooden hearts? They have monkey cards and love words … check the etsy site or try the blog for more
Read the blurb….
100% RECYCLED WITH BIO-DEGRADABLE CLEAR BAG
Printed on 100% recycled smooth white board. Each card comes with 100% recycled C6 brown craft paper envelope inside a clear bio-degradable bag. The bag is made from corn starch which is fully bio-degradable and compostable, breaking down to just CO2 and H2O – as green as you can get!
Dig The Earth!
For other plastic free cards check these out.
Inspired to give up plastic? Check these plastic free products sourced as part of our plastic boycott and listed here the >>>A-Z plastic free index
Cards have been the bane of Pams life - I mean greeting cards not gambling or credit cards – thats all in the past.
Greeting cards — there are times when you need to send them … but when you go to buy them they come wrapped in icky plastic.
I love my friends but I love the planet – what to do. I know you can send e cards but thats just mean. No cards = no mates in Pams shallow social circles. 
So check these out from carte postale – printed on sustainable board, printed with vegetable inks but best of all from Pams point of view – they come in biodegradable cellophane wrappers.
Kaloo Kalay 
While talking of things celebratory, its that time of year for spending - on clothes on presents on food. For those of you who live near Huddersfield check this out for a range of eco duds and locally made gifts.
