Plastic free booze is hard to find….glup!!!!. But as giving up IS NOT AN OPTION…here are our best choices….
The Plastic In Booze
Metal caps have a plastic liner or small disc to prevent leakage. It’s a tiny amount but it is plastic. This is true of everything from spirits to bottles of beer
Cans of beer and tonic are plastic lined!
Wine may have plastic corks. Even if you find a wine with a cork the foil round it may be plastic lined!
Plasticless….
Spirits & Liquors
To be truly plastic free, you may have to set up a still in the back garden! Unless you can get to one of these liquid delis. Failing that you can at least buy British made.
You can get plastic free wine in a few parts of the UK.
Beer Refills
Take a container and ask for takeout.Here are my favourite pubs…
Mixers & Soft Drinks
Tonic in tins are out as the tins are plastic lined. Mixers come in glass but the metal lids of glass bottles are also plastic lined. And who can afford Fever Tree? You can make your own with a soda stream and ready made syrups.
Fizzy Water
I recently got myself a Soda Stream which means I can make my own mixers, carbonated water and of course fizzy Drinks
Straws
You can find reusable and compostable straws here.
Ice
I am still using plastic ice cube trays. If they ever pack in I might try the metal ones shown below. They look a bit fiddly. as anyone used them?
Cocktail Shaker and Other Gubbins
You don’t need one – just more rubbish in the kitchen cupboard. Mix them in a jug! Stirred James, stirred! But if you have to have to, you can get some lovely plastic free items.
If you cant find them locally you can of course
Buy On Line
These shops sell plastic free products and send them out in plasticless packages. Find them HERE
Or Amazon eek!
For the rest,this Amazon shopping list may inspire you. Amazon is a very dirty word at the moment and I thought long and hard before suggesting them. Heres why I went ahead….. No we are not entirely happy with Amazons recent history. However these links are for 3rd party sellers, we have always found the Amazon service to be good and their packaging usually compostable. In the absence of anything else we feel we can recommend them.
