Green web awards

Nigels eco store where you can buy amongst other things the coolest reusable cup has launched the Green Web Awards.

heart broken though I am not to be numbered amongst the chosen I have to admit its a great round up of the green and the good blogging and selling in cyberspace today. Maybe next year eh???

Recycling

check out the national recycling awards – they are coolio

Ikea Crackers

Its not just flat packs they sell but these paper wrapped crackers – pretty tasty they are too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Du Vin Du Pain Du Plastic Free Fromage

C’est tres bon

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Steripenmandu

As you know I love our steri pen for saving me, as it does, from polluting remote villages and pristine landscapes with dirty mineral water bottles. I got mine from E bay but if you are in Katmandu you can buy them from.

KEEP …. map and address here

(You can also buy sterilized water to fill your own water bottle here at 10 Nepalese rupees a liter)

Or

Mount Everest Equipment Store UP School Road Tamel.

Salty Tasting Teeth

Experiments with the Teeth

For the past few months I have been using my own  home made tooth powder which has been very successful. Though I brought mountains of the stuff to India with me, my supplies have now run out. So I have been using salt. I bought my salt from Dzomsa in Leh. It came in a paper bag – good – reinforced with plastic tape – grrrr.

August

This month I…..

…got jiggy with flickr and started a plastic is rubbish photo pool to illustrate plastic pollution world wide. It features fab pictures like this one …and some of mine too!

…found out that rubbers have plastic in them and that maybe I should call them erasers

…sourced some metal and wooden pencil sharpeners to keep my new pencil nice and pointy.

…realised that wooden pencils could be used to replace plastic pens

…sourced some home made hair gel and hairspray that can be made with plastic free ingredients

…found these tiny reusable water bottles for little ones
….gave up shampoo for soap

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plastic free rubbers

I didn’t know that pvc was found in rubbers but here you go ….

PVC Free Rubber

from the blurb….

PVC-free thermoplastic rubber erasers, measuring 35×31x8mm, manufactured in the EU.
PVC has long been recognised as a particularly hazardous plastic – vinyl chloride itself being a known carcinogen threatening the liver, and the byproduct dioxins from manufacture and incineration can persist long in the environment and travel great distances; these are linked to immune system suppression, reproductive disorders and cancer.
These can also be overprinted with your organisation’s own details – please see our Printed Promotional Products page for more details.

wooden pencil wooden sharpener

Originally uploaded by plastic is rubbish

For those of you who have given up plastic pens for wooden pencils need a sharpener but dont fancy buying 20, try one of these

Sustainably-Sourced Wooden Pencil Sharpener
Only: £4.45
Cylindrical wooden double pencil sharpener with collection tray. Made from 100% sustainably-sourced wood in Germany. This sharpener has two different diameter cutters and is extremely strong and robust for frequent use.

The new shampoo

Back in the early days I gave up buying shampoo in nasty plastic bottles and took to making my own from soap flakes. However I got to thinking why bother with all that flaking and making – surely soap is soap is soap. Turns out yes it is and you can wash your hair with a bar of soap just as well as anything else including shampoo which is just runny soap.

I find its best to wash twice.

Now this is really good news for back packers cutting down as it does on not only your plastic waste – excellent result – but the amount of stuff in your wash bag and so in your rucksack. You might think that’s nothing when you are back at home,  when you are carrying the damn thing while being mobbed by rick shaw wallahs, every bit of weight reduction counts.

However I have had bad experiences with Indian soap.  Soap bought in a cardboard box comes wrapped in a plastic bag inside.

But not this soap….

Himalayan Blends soap comes in a fairtrade box made out of recycled cotton. For more check out their site  www.villageartisan.com hand milled by khan and sons vpo palloor chamba hp

If you are in Leh you can buy it from the Organic Store.  If you are in Shimla, you can buy it from the everything shop on the Mall.

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