[News] Single Use Plastics. (About the Environment, not Football Fans!).

Triggaaar said:

IMO, instead of worrying about your veg, our country should concentrate on getting other countries around the world do start recycling. Can you believe that Russia, the superpower from the 80s, is still classed as a developing country

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The Large One said:

That is more to do with the manufacturers than any local authority. Contact the cheapskate manufacturers.

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beorhthelm said:

was told by someone in the food industry that the "recycle" symbol means the plastic is recycled, not that it can be recycled. plastic is supposed to bear the symbol with a number to say what type of plastic it is. so partly manufactures fault but also them doing whats expected.

the wider problem of single use plastic maybe overstated because the problem is when plastic is simply discarded. if you put plastic straw in the bin (in a bag usually) goes to tip it pretty much stays there. its the general litter that arrives in the sea. the single use straw could be recycled if you collected them up and sent them to suitable processing.

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The Large One said:

Not really. The plastic used in making these straws is neither recycleable nor reuseable - that's why they're called 'single use'.

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Deadly Danson said:

At the risk of making myself look even more of an idiot than normal, I do question why any of the plastic that I use and bung in the recycling bin should end up in the ocean? I don't throw it there, I don't leave any litter behind and I've never thrown anything overboard. Surely, if plastic is ending up in the ocean (microbeads aside) then that's an issue further up the chain. Surely the aim is to encourage people to recycle more, make it easier to recycle and encouraging companies and governments to dispose of my waste in a responsible and environmentally friendly way. Of course it won't hurt us to limit our use of plastics as well.

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Daddies_Sauce said:

France banned the supply of plastic bags in super/hypermarkets for packaging loose fruit and veg, they now supply bio-degradable bags in stead. There are also recent comments on tea bags, these are not 100% recyclable, as the tea bags are sealed using a glue containing plastic.

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Jack Straw said:

Lots in the news about single use plastics, especially about how much ends up in our oceans and that micro-beads of plastic are harming our fish and other sea-life.
My resolution is to think before I buy anything with plastic, for example, loose apples instead of packaged ones.
Do you really need to put bananas, baking potatoes, courgettes, carrots to mention only a few items, in to plastic bags when shopping?
These bags would end up as land-fill and not in the sea, but never the less, reducing single use plastics being disposed anywhere has to be a good thing.
Would you consider asking for your second and subsequent pints of Harveys or whatever is your drink at the Amex, to be poured in to the plastic "glass" your first pint was in?
Every little helps?

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pearl said:

only problem here is in the NS they pour them in advance to speed things up

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