Welcome to Plastic Is Rubbish. here you can familiarize yourself with us, plastic, the blog and theboycott.
2006
In October 2006, increasingly alarmed by plastic trash I gave up rubbish plastic and began sourcing sustainable, plastic-free alternatives.
In January 2007 I started the Plastic Is Rubbish blog to help individuals reduce their plastic use.
Our plastic boycott began with a simple premise in response to an increased awareness of plastic rubbish. We wanted to know how much plastic could we cut?
We started by sourcing plastic free alternatives to everyday plastic products. Back then we didn’t know much about plastic and thought primarily in terms of bags and crisp wrappers. We didn’t know for example that plastic was used to line tin cans of food or that it came in liquid form as a glue.
As our boycott progressed we learnt more about plastic. We now blog under several different headings. Please note we are still learning and still cutting plastic.
The Blog
The blog is organised into the following chapters
Welcome a quick introduction to us, the blog and everything
About Plastic everything you need to know about plastic and somethings you wish you didn’t
Bad Plastic – why you need to cut your plastic consumption
Cut plastic – how to cut unnecessary plastic out of your life & meet the other people doing it.
Links & Projects -links to other plastic free people, the U.K. directory and out other projects
Disclaimer.
How the blog is written and why you shouldn’t trust us
Us & The Boycot
More about us the blog and the boycott rules.
Us
I live in Yorkshire, with my husband and but without kids or animals. We shop at supermarkets when we have to, eat meat and drink alcohol. Giving up is not in nature. We want to do everything just without creating a huge pile of non-biodegradable, possibly carcinogenic, animal-killing rubbish that future generations will have to clean up.
The Plastic Around Us
Just think about it!
You get up and wash with your plastic bottles of shampoos and shower gel. Clean your teeth with your plastic toothbrush using tooth paste from a plastic tube which may contain small plastic beads.
Get dressed in your plastic clothes. Bras, tights, underwear and socks all contain some plastic fibres even if the rest of your outfit is only natural fibres (unlikely).
Stumble downstairs and make some toast with your plastic wrapped bread. Please note the foil wrapping of your butter is plastic lined, the metal lid of your honey is plastic lined, your tea bags (the actual bags) contain plastic and the milk comes from a plastic bottle.
Lunchtime and your take out paper cup of coffee is plastic lined. Can of coke – plastic lined. The reciept for the Coke is printed with ink that contain plastic.
Beans on toast for tea? Tins too are plastic lined.
Got lucky? Condoms – made from plastic. Time of the month? Towels and tampons made of plastic.
Almost everything you touch is, or has been wrapped in, plastic. Often both. Almost everything you do results in a huge pile of usually non-biodegradable trash that has to be specially disposed of. Plastic products are already impacting on and damaging the environment and they may be damaging our health. Long term effects are as yet unknown.
Plastic Is Rubbish was created to help individuals reduce their plastic use. The website highlights the problems of plastic over consumption and lists hundreds of plastic-less products and lifestyle hacks.
About us how we started blogging and why the boycott
Our plastic waste audit and a cunning plan to cut plastic.
The plastic we boycott Including sneaky plastics you may not know about.
The Plastic We Use You will only get the Dyson when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Not in my bin – When determining if something is plastic free read more HERE
Plastics that cut plastic here
Alternative compostable plastic products
Because you cant cut it all…
The plastic food we eat
The plastic booze (and some great alternatives), here.
Why we dont recycle.
Not in my bin – When determining if something is plastic free read more HERE
Our plastic free year can be found HERE