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When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. So here is our list [...]

When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. One great scheme is these [...]

  Time for another long Thai train journey and after the disappointments of the first one, plastic speaking and meal wise that is, we resolved to be better prepared. For more go to Thai Train Trauma or take my word for it, they love plastic and will wrap everything they can in it….  and the [...]

When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. So if you are in [...]

When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. One great scheme is these [...]

SEA Pulse Films – The beauty and the plastic waste threats to marine life Share · Public event Promote my Page Time 20 November · 13:00 – 16:00 Location Electric Lodge Created by: A Kanna Jones, Bill Macdonald More info SEA Pulse films is coming back with more new films and a bonus movie! Captain [...]

For those of you planning to go overland through Russia this year, here are some plastic free tips. If you are going by train you will of course be travelling on what is known as the trans Siberian.

Helsinki, Helsinki, Helsinki, – all I can say that if it wasn’t for the Moomintrolls ….. Our hotel was way out in the suburbs. To get there we had to travel through miles of subdued housing estates on trams filled with extremely drunk fins. How they got so drunk was a mystery. Obviously it was [...]

Got the train from Warsaw across Estonia to remorselessly medieval Tallinn beloved by stag and hen parties and our home for the next week. Being plastic free in central Tallinn is hard work because unlike other European towns there are no small shops selling tasty food stuff. In amongst the endless amber emporiums, (big in [...]

Summer, a time for soft fruit strawberries raspberries and blackcurrants. Hurrah….but of course they all pre-packed in plastic tubs. If you want them plastic free, in England at least, you have to grow your own. We are lucky – we do have an allotment and do grow our own…. and they really do taste so [...]




  • Plastic lasts for ever and we are using it to make one use, throwaway items. We have created everlasting rubbish and plastic litter is increasing exponentially. Plastic pollution is destroying the landscape, killing wildlife and poisoning the seas.
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    Evidence is also emerging that the plastic we use in everyday to wrap our food, wear next to our skin and use to decorate our homes may well be poisoning us.
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    For more reasons to cut your plastic consumption click on the image below - it is of a bird that died from ingesting plastic.
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  • So in 2007 we began to boycott stupid and unnecessary plastic products and source biodegradable alternatives. . Click the rubbish below to see what we boycott.
  • . Over the years we have sourced a lot plastic free alternatives. These are products as tried and tested by us. .. To find out what they are click the image below...
  • But even we cannot live completely with out plastic - those seaside rides get us everytime! .. Click on the image below to see plastic we still use....
  • Plastic free highlights

  • planet trash
  • or check out the flickr group

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    Marine litter. A winters worth of beached litter.

    Marine litter. Collected litter ready for pickup.  90% plastic.

    London Pride Riverside Rubbish

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  • or pictures of plastic pollution on google

  • YOU TUBE

    Films of plastic crap in motion and some interesting solutions. Click the cups to go.

  • Lucky Dip


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