Mascara

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Pull off the silver casing covering the “well” of the mascara. Don’t be afraid to pull hard!

Mascara Refills Step 2

STEP 2

Now do the same for the mascara wand casing.

Mascara Refill Module Step 3

STEP 3

Unwrap your new mascara refill, and insert into each part of the casing. You should feel it “click” into place. The refill can be recycled, and your Kjaer Weis makeup is now ready to use!

Its seems that this comes in plastic free packaging and while the product its self is not plastic free, it is recyclable and represents a huge reduction in plastic. I am investigating. For more details visit https://kjaerweis.com/about/intelligent-refill-system

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Bath, Love Tap Water Refill Scheme

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A new water refill scheme based in Bath. The following has been taken from their website…

water fountain

 

Two local women want to bring drinking water to the streets of Bath. Love Tap Water not for profit organisation  that wants to make Bath the “first city in the UK to offer its residents and visitors a fully sustainable way to drink water on the go”

It’s water fountains funded by the sale of stainless steel water bottles as designed by Sir James Dyson for the Love Tap Water campaign;

Find out more from their

website  Love Tap Water

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Anti-plastic infographics

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It doesn’t matter how well you write, sometimes, just sometimes, you need a bloody good graphic to get the case across…..

and there is some fantastic work out there on the internet.

Here are just some of the great campaigns we have featured. To  see more visit our fantastic anti-plastic infographic  gallery

Decided to give up plastic? Need some nice anti-plastic posters and imagery to illustrate your new lifestyle choice? Course you do so check out this For more infographics….  Pinterest  and lots of fantastic artwork by extremely talented people.

..you have nothing to loose but your chainstores hahahahahahhhahhaaa

 

Check out this fantastic bit of art work. Sadly I don’t know who did it but we can thank Danielle for passing it on. Do check out her fantastic good works over at her blog it starts with me

water waste

Do you know people still drinking bottled water? Show them this… click the image to check out the organisation behind this image. You will be glad you did.

 

Plastic Free Films

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Jeremy Iron mmmm ….chocolatey voice over on this plastic bag mocumentary  mmmmm…..oh, er, right , it’s a  really good  film about plastic bag pollution – check it out

You’ve Read the Blog now see the film

Was featured by film maker Megan Parkinson in her documentary. Try to get past the rather gruesome still where I look positively rodentlikePlastic Planet A Journey To Zerowaste a nice introduction to some of the U.K. based plasticless and zero waste movements.

This is my section up on You Tube but best to watch it as part of the whole. 

Here are some more films you might like….

A Plastic Ocean
Craig Leeson discovers a startling amount of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.
Released September 22, 2016

Bag It Jeb stops using plastic bags leading him to question the role of plastic in his life.

Addicted to Plastic – as the title suggests it looks at how dependant we are on plastic

From the Waste Up.
“Our documentary follows the lives of 19 people as they attempt to live without plastic.”

Trashed
More Jeremy Irons this time tracking world trash

Plasticized Made by 5 Gyres documenting the extent of plastic pollution in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Tapped
All about bottled water

The Clean Bin Project
Jen and Grants compete as to who can create the least waste,

Time To Make Changes

Ugh that was nasty! Inspired to change your habits? There are some great campaigns and campaigners here…

Beach Clean Ups

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Big Spring Beach Clean

Surfers Against Sewage & Ecover Call For Volunteers To Help Clean Beaches & Dramatically Increase Marine Plastic Recycling
Ecover join our call for community volunteers to join the Big Spring Beach Clean this April (3rd – 9th April) to help clean up beaches nationwide and recycle over 50,000 plastic bottles as part of their Ocean Plastic Bottle Project.

The Big Spring Beach Clean has fast become the biggest and boldest beach clean project in the UK, with tens of thousands of volunteers participating around the UK coastline over the last 5 years.

Read more…

Marine Conservation Society

Every September, the Marine Conservation Society (MSCUK) organises The Great British Beach Clean

“The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) urgently needs volunteers to take part in the UK’s biggest beach clean and litter survey which takes place in September.
The MCS surveys show a 75% increase in the amount of beach litter since the first Beachwatch in 1994, with plastic waste increasing by a massive 121%. In 2009 alone, over 12,000 cotton bud sticks were found on UK beaches, along with 16,000 drinks bottles, 20,000 lids and 17,000 items of fishing litter.
The MCS Beachwatch Big Weekend provides a simple and effective way in which everyone can help tackle the relentless wave of rubbish washing onto our beaches and at sea. “Volunteers never cease to be amazed at the amount of the litter they find on their beaches.”

Check out the details here

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U.K. Refuseniks & Bloggers

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U.K. based plastic free refuseniks. Very useful blogs, passionate people and great resources.

In the UK, living plastic free is a very ad hoc kind of process. While other countries may have bulk buy chain stores where you buy your basic staples loose, in the UK this is not the case. Instead we have to scurry around sourcing some plastic free rice from Khadims and tracking down  a local bakers, some of us might be lucky enough to still have a market and maybe a washing up liquid refill site but it is by no means guaranteed. Generally speaking, recommendations for a plastic free lifestyle in the U.K. tend to be site specific. While I might have sourced olive oil refills in Todmorden that’s no use to folks in Lincoln.
So the more people prepared to write about and share their experiences of living #plasticfree in their own town the better. The plastic free U.K. directory was created to promote this information.
It’s easy to submit a piece. Write about your plastic free finds in a post and I will publish your entry in the directory, credited (of course), with whatever links you choose to share.
If you blog, you can  write an  introduction to your website. Job done.

Bristol & Plastic A Lot Less

Plastivist of the month is Michelle Cassar...... I started Being ...
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Croyden – plastic free Kake

I'm taking the Plastic-Free July challenge of cutting out single-use ...
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Devon & Sarah

My name is Sarah, I live in Devon, and I ...
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Modbury – The Plastic Bag Free Town.

Thanks to the efforts of Rebecca Hosking and the local ...
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Plastic free July Bloggers U.K.

Each year a good number of British bloggers sign up for ...
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Scotland – Westy Writes

I’m a Scottish blogger who is about to undertake the ...
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Scotland Our Green Journey Blog

Hi, my name is Charlotte Todd It is my mission ...
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Wales Plastic Free Lent

'When did our lives become so plastic? Plastic chairs, plastic cups, ...
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Others that I know Of

Allotment Recipes.

Have  a look at this very good blog based in the Leighton buzzard area www.allotmentrecipes.wordpress.com

Rosies Ecoblog U.K.

“The second school of thought is not just Zero-waste to landfill, but Zero waste at all.” Well said and this means of course going plastic-trash free. Follow her on her year with out plastic, with kids! Yikes!

More?

If you know of any that should be on the list please add the details in the comments section. Or submit an entry for the directory.

Worldwide

Find links to other bloggers in other countries here.

Campaigns, Projects & Social Media

There are more links to campaigners, blogger and anti-plastic projects here

The Plastic-free U.K. Directory

Showcasies U.K. based  business, people and organisations that are plastic aware, in their own words….
Sadly I don’t have time to cover all the great people and businesses out there… and I always feel a little shy about write ups. Suppose I miss the point. So I ask people to contribute their own posts. The only provisos are that you have to be U.K. based and of course it has to have a rubbish element. Not necessarily anti-plastic but certainly plastic problem aware.

Hodmedods – British Grown Beans, Grains & Pulses

Did you now you can get homegrown British beans, lentils (soon) and even Quinoa. Many of them organically grown…. Introducing ...
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Find more #plasticfree projects listed in the Plastic Free U.K. Directory homepage
Or by category….

By category

Business & Social Enterprises

U.K. based enterprises that provide plastic free/reduced products and services. These people state plastic/packaging reduction as part of their business ethos. Find them here.

Arts & Education

Educating, entertaining and exhibiting for a plastic free world!

 

 

 

Recycling foil

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This is on a need to know basis – you will need to know this when I talk plastic free puddings.

Some foil facts;

Aluminum or tin foil is not biodegradable. It takes 200 to 500 years to decompose. It does degrade into pieces in 20 to 50 years, but the components take much longer.

Aluminum is also used as a layer in many types of lightweight packaging — the aseptic boxes that soy milk and juice come in being one example. So if you’re not recycling those, start losing sleep over that too. Here’s just one motivational factoid: Americans are said to throw away enough aluminum in three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

Foil can be recycled – see here for what and why 7bdfb9b5f272172fe4ae2802ee228786

Small pieces need to be scrunched up into a ball so they dont damage the machine… my mate Mrs Average ( her of the Rubbish Diet and how to cut your waste) can tell you all you need to know about balls of foil here for how to collect and then recycle it …

If you are a bit arty you can make a very lovely ball and photo it with Pee Wee Herman