Always happy to collaborate on a plastic free giveaway. These are the folks we have worked with. If you are interested you can read more about the process Snact

About Snact “make snacks from surplus produce. That’s produce that would otherwise be thrown away for being too big, too small, too ugly, or simply too abundant. Better still this sustainable fruit jerky comes in 100% home compostable packaging – the first of its kind in the UK! The packet biologically decomposes within just 180 days and becomes a fertiliser for soil, behaving similarly to an orange peel. You can read more about Snact, here.

WUKA period underwear

Just for the Plastic Is Rubbish members, I would like to give two prototype WUKA period underwear this month, which mean you will be the first one to try it. All you have to do is join the Plastic Is Rubbish Facebookgroup Then Llike and follow us WUKA. and signup with us at www.wuka.co.uk Also Tag your friend who would love this and help us reach out to every menstruating bodies all around UK. Read more WUKA here: https://wuka.co.uk/blogs/news/eradicate-pads-and-tampons-exterminate” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>HERE

Sorry BUT you missed it….

Snact
Snact “make snacks from surplus produce. That’s produce that would otherwise be thrown away for being too big, too small, too ugly, or simply too abundant.

Better still this sustainable fruit jerky comes in 100% home compostable packaging – the first of its kind in the UK! The packet biologically decomposes within just 180 days and becomes a fertiliser for soil, behaving similarly to an orange peel.

You can read more about Snact, here.

WUKA period underwear

Just for the Plastic Is Rubbish members, I would like to give two prototype WUKA period underwear this month, which mean you will be the first one to try it.
All you have to do is join the Plastic Is Rubbish Facebookgroup
Then Llike and follow us WUKA. and signup with us at www.wuka.co.uk
Also Tag your friend who would love this and help us reach out to every menstruating bodies all around UK.
Read more WUKA here: https://wuka.co.uk/blogs/news/eradicate-pads-and-tampons-exterminate

Greencane Plasticfee Tissue Products

A great giveaway from a company called Greencane 
They make #plasticfree tissue products including loo roll. Wahey. They gave away
Mixed Box
32 Rolls of Toilet Paper (8 packs of 4 rolls)
6 Rolls of Paper Towels (3 packs of 2 rolls)
3 Boxes Facial Tissues

The products come in individually wrapped packs.
All the packaging is paper, card and or cellophone.
The cellophane is certified  as commercially compostable.
Delivered to your door in a cardboard box from their Brighton warehouse.
There may be some plastic tape on the box but they are working on that!
Anyone trying to live a plastic free life will know what good news this is!
I have reviewed these produce – you can read my review here.

Buy

For lots more info and to order products  visit the website

U.K. Made Cotton Produce Bags

Do Your Bit Produce Bags From a U.K. Based company who make organic cotton reusable bags from fabric sourced from a fair traded local company.

Buy Here

Never mind, you can still enjoy the frisson of plastic free shopping by buying bags right now from the Do Your Bit shop

Tickets to see
You missed out on tickets to see Bea Johnson but there will be other opportunities. To win great free #plasticfree stuff.

We love promoting plasticfree products and a great way to that is to give somethings away for free. Who doesn’t love a freebie?

So if you have a product you want to promote and Wish to work with us, this is how we organise a giveaway. However  we are always open to suggestions.

In the following, the organisation giving the gift is referred to as the donor .

Briefly the donor offers a product to give away, we organise a draw and promote it and the product on our blog. The donor should do the same. The winner is chosen at random. Their details are passed on the donor who send the prize on.

The Giveaway Draw

Is done via Rafflecoptor ( who organise on line draws).
Terms and conditions are agreed with the donor. i.e. Only residents of the U.K. can enter.
The link is designed.
The resulting code is then pasted into blog post and looks something like this.

To enter, participants then click on the link and are directed to a range of options.
For our giveaways they have to
tweet a tweet containing your Twitter handle
visit your FB page
comment on the Give Away Page (more on give away pages below).

Each action counts as an entry to the draw.
Participants can do all three thereby increasing their chances of winning,

Entries  go into rafflecoptors virtual hat.The winner is chosen at random.
The prize is sent directly to them by the company doing the giving.

Advertising the Giveaway

Both parties should promote the giveaway as widely as they can.

Blog

I promote the giveaway  on my blog in a variety of ways

The What’s On Page
Every month I do a round up of latest news, plastic free finds and other topical stuff.

In The Previous Month
I advertise the giveaway the month before in the Whats On page. First in the news as a shoutout and then in more detail in later on.
You can see an example from the current giveaway here

In Giveaway Month
When the giveaway goes live, it is featured in the current months Whats On page but this time with the link to the Rafflecoptor giveaway like the one shown above.

See an example from the current giveaway here

The Giveaway Page

It is also promoted on the separate give away page. The giveaway page focuses on your product only, has more detail and again links to the  Rafflecoptor draw.  This is the page entrants will be directed via tweets and FB links.

See an example from the current giveaway here

Side Bar On All Posts

The giveaway page is also linked via a widget on the blog side bar which appears alongside of every post. The widget has a picture and brief description of your product and a countdown.

Social Media

Plastic Is Rubbish a rapidly growing group where folks can share, rant and post about living plastic free. Join us here.
Planet Trash A Facebook of plastic pollution.
Facebook page Plastic Free U.K. a visual library of U.K. plastic free finds we come across
PlasticSrubbish Twitter account
Plastic Is Rubbish Instagram
And have a Pinterest page

Want to do one? Contact us now.

Here’s a guide to celebrating, partying and gift giving.

If you want biodegradable, disposable cutlery try How To Party Plastic Free. Reusable advent calendar? Check out Christmas. Compostable condoms – yes they are in Valentines along with other loved up stuff.

And of course at the end of every party, the washing up. Sigh.

Have fun and drink responsibly….

The Plastic Free Year

February and Valentines Day

Pancake Day

Mothers Day

Easter

Halloween

Remberence Day

Christmas

Long term readers will have noticed that Google ads have arrived on site. I never wanted to but I need the cash. Until now all the work done has been done in my spare time and for free. I see it as my pro bono environmental work. I will continue to do work for free because I believe in it.

I also pay for the hosting and other costs of putting it online. That doesnt cost a huge amount but my income is not huge either.

But as the blog, and the plasticfree movement grow, it is becoming increasingly demanding. I can’t afford to spend any more time on it so I am looking for investment that will allow me to take time away from my self employed paid work.

So if you have any spare change and are looking for a cause to sponsor – or have found what we do useful – consider bunging it our way and buy another #plasticfree hour for the cause.

Why support me?
I have been living, travelling and promoting a plastic free lifestyle for over decade now.
I was one of the first plasticfree bloggers raising awareness about plastic pollution.
I have a huge database of plastic free alternatives and life style hacks up on the website, I regularly share information on social media sites and host an online discussion group via Facebook.
I am the only person curating this kind of resource on this scale

Why Is This Important?
Advising people about the plasticfree alternatives is vital because
Plastic waste has already fundamentally changed the ecosystem with unknown consequences.
Plastic pollution looks ugly, costs a lot to clean up and is killing animals.
Problematic plastic and plastic misuse needs to be stopped at source.
People need to be aware of plasticfree altenatives before they can choose them.

So if you think what we do is worthwhile, consider buying us a coffee.
Many thanks for your contribution.

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Index

Fibres to fabrics 

• definitions Fibres to fabric
• Why I prefer natural fabrics over synthetics here.

Clothes

• The plastic In  ready made clothes
• See some plastic-free/reduced , ready-made clothes here
• How to sew plastic free
• See The clothes I have made here
• How Much? The Fair Share Fabric Project Introduction and yearly synopsis

Footwear
Other 

Stats

• Lots of outrageous statistics HERE

Textiles and ultimately clothing start with fibres

Fibres To Fabric

Fibres are short fine hairs that can be twisted or spun into longer thread or yarn. that is then used as string for tying, thread for sewing or yarn for knitting or weaving to make fabric

Natural fibres Are derived from plants like cotton or animals like wool. They biodegrade

Synthetic fibres are man-made. Many are petroleum derived plastic. . Most don’t biodegrade.

Regenerated Fibres The base material is cellulose that is converted through a chemical process into fibres. Some it is claimed are biodegradable. Some are not.

Mixed fibre are a combination of synthetic and natural

Read more HERE

Yarns and threads

Fibres are SPUN into yarns and threads that are then used as string for tying, thread for sewing or yarn for knitting or weaving to make fabric

Fabrics

Threads can be woven or knitted into fabric.
The fabric often takes the name of the fibre such as cotton or wool or go under a trade name such as nylon.Or it can be called something else completely like  denim or crepe de chine.

Read about why I prefer natural fabrics over synthetics here.

Clothing

Clothes are then made out of woven/knitted fabrics or knitted yarn.

Shop Bought

I have started making my own clothes but some things are beyond me. Tee shirts, underwear and Jeans / trousers are all way too difficult as yet. Socks, tights and leggings also fall into this category. Though I am learning to knit socks!!!

Buying Plastic Free – Problems

You might be buying cotton but you still get some plastic. The “cotton” to sew them will be, (polyester), plastic. So will the buttons and other fixings. even the labels. And those beastly coat hangers. Its a minefield I tell you.

So some stuff I have to buy. I have strict rules ( surprise) applied to buying of clothes.

Read more about plastic Involved when buying  ready made clothes and our sustainable criteria for buying (or making clothes) in the  clothing manifesto 

See some plastic-free/reduced , ready-made clothes here

Home MadeClothes
The only way I can buy plastic-free and afford fair trade,organic clothes is make them myself.
And I get to support local fabric shops which is very important to me. As is buying U.K. made fabrics.
Read all about it here.
How to sew plastic free
See The clothes I have made here

How Much? The Fair Share Fabric Project
Ones mans sustainable amount is anothers nothing to wear. So I have decided to use only my global share of fibres and they have to be sustainably sourced. Whats a global share? Share out all that is made by all the people on the planet and it works out, (very roughly), at 11.74 kg per person of which 3.8 kg is natural fibres. As I don’t like synthetics I try to stick to 3.8 kg of natural fibres.
Introduction and yearly synopsis

Read More About It

Lots of outrageous statistics HERE

Here are some hashtags you might like to explore!

Twitter Tags

#overpackaging – new tag on the blogs – for stupidly overpacked items

#reusable i.e not disposables which we would like to

#ditchthedisposables … YES!!!!

#plasticfree

#plasticshaming – for particularly gross plastic products

#PfreeUK – the tag for the directory of plasticless/free projects, businesesse & other aware bodies based in the UK.

#plastic

#singleuseplastic

#plasticpollution

#unpackaged

#noplastic

#pfjuk – plastic free July U.K. related subjects.

And if you want to mange your Twitter lists quickly and efficiently, try this free app 

#Plasticfree – a proviso for the picky

I describe myself as a plastic- refusnik, a boycotter or plastic free. But I have never been happy with any of those labels. I am not plastic free. I live in a house with plastic cabling, I work on my plastic computer until I put on my plastic coat to go out in the rain. I have a relationship with my Dyson that is almost love.

Nor would I aspire to be plastic free. Plastic is a great product that has changed the world for the better.

It is the misuse of plastic that I am campaigning against not the product itself. So yes I refuse a lot of trashy plastic, I boycott abused plastic, but plastic- free? No certainly not. It was Michelles tag, being PALL ( plastic a lot less) that summed it up for me. That is exactly what we, the plastic avoiders are, plastic-less.

Michelle has been plasticless for a longtime now – and she can help you go plasticless too. Find out more about Michelle, and being PALL here.

But I still use the #plasticfree hashtag because I have used for so long.

 

I am always looking for ways to promote plastic reduction so I thought I would try this new approach from Thunderclap

“Thunderclap is the first-ever crowd speaking platform that helps people be heard by saying something together. It allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, so it rises above the noise of your social networks. By boosting the signal at the same time. Thunderclap helps a single person create action and change like never before.
This is my message and I want to get it out there to as many people as possible “Cut plastic trash and limit your contact with endocrine disruptors with these 350+ plastic-free alternatives” with a link to my blog.

To do this I have to get support for my campaign from you the people.

How?

You visit this page and pledge your suport via one the social media channels you belong to – or indeed all of them!Once done you are added to my supporters total.

If I get 100 supportersThunderclap will post my message on all the accounts following me on July 31st. creating one big social media shout out helping people cut plastic pollution for the good of the planet and thier health.

This is a one time message. You will not be spammed or anything nasty and if you change your mind you can opt out at any time.
Many thanks for your support. Together we can make changes! x