Comments on: Kyla, Week 1 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/kyla-week-1/ Take the challenge. Collect your plastic waste (both recyclable and non) for one week or more. Then photograph, tally, and post it here. What can we learn about our habits and lifestyles by examining our waste? And what changes can each of us make to leave the planet a little less trashy? Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kat http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/kyla-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1944 Kat Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:04:54 +0000 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/?p=554#comment-1944 Hi Kyla
When I lived in Glasgow I shopped at a little fruit and veggie market that didn’t wrap anything. It was called roots and fruits. Don’t know where you live but this shop is on the west end (great Western RD) there must be more shops like this around! Also milk in glass bottles? maybe you can find that too.
Atleast all that oatmeal will make Scotland more authentic! Good luck.
PS have any little old ladies called you hen yet?

]]> By: Helen Crittenden http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/kyla-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1943 Helen Crittenden Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:00:04 +0000 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/?p=554#comment-1943 Have you tried finding local street markets. You can usually buy naked veg in those, just take a cloth bag with you.
Most UK cities still have doorstep milk deliveries – glass milk bottles are returnable and reused. The only drawback is you have to be around when the delivery takes place (otherwise it might be nicked off your doorstep or go off in the sun, even in Glasgow). Alternatively buy dried milk and make it up by the pint – more likely to be otainable in cardboard packaging, or at least use less plastic.

]]> By: Beth Terry http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/2011/02/kyla-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1940 Beth Terry Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:15:06 +0000 http://myplasticfreelife.com/showyourplastic/?p=554#comment-1940 Hi Kyla. Your degradable packaging is probably made from petroleum-based plastic with an additive that makes it break down in a landfill. I have concerns about this kind of plastic because it still comes from petroleum and also because the companies that make these products do not disclose what additives they put in the plastic, so consumers have no way to really know if they’re safe.

I look forward to learning more about your discoveries as you research what resources are available where you live. I don’t really have suggestions for you because it sounds like you’re already on the right track!

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