Comments | j4: A load of wrap

A load of wrap

Jul 02, 2014 22:42

Day 2 of plastic-free July involved a trip to the Co-op to buy potatoes for dinner and anything else from the shopping list that I could find in the 3 minutes or so before Img got tired/bored. This was never going to go well, because the Co-op (despite its supposed commitment to the environment) wraps pretty much everything in plastic, to the ( Read more... )

shopping, plastic-free, pfjuk, environment

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nou July 3 2014, 21:20:10 UTC

Oh yoghurt :( I haven't missed yoghurt yet, but I know I'm going to.

I'm starting to think I'm in the best possible place in the entire country to undertake this challenge. Fruit and veg shops (there's one within 5 minutes' walk that's open until 3am), local bakery that'll sell me sliced bread in my own cloth bag, local butcher that'll sell me meat in my own compostable bag, Weigh & Save shop for nuts/dried fruit/rice/couscous/etc, Lush shop for solid shampoo and deodorant etc (and all of these open on weekends too). There's even apparently a shop at London Bridge (I can get there in 30 minutes door to door if I time it right) that sells wine in reusable 1-litre bottles.

But it's still really hard. Kate got it absolutely right when she said this is a structural problem, not an individual one.

j4 July 3 2014, 21:42:12 UTC

I suspect yoghurt is something I could make at home if I had the time and energy. Can you freeze it? (I mean, freeze and defrost? I know FroYo is a thing but it's not the same thing!)

And yes, your local shops sound brilliant! Especially Weigh & Save, we could do with one of them (SESI is OK but it's not exactly convenient).

I agree it's not an individual problem, and to be honest I'm not sure how much use it is as an individual exercise for me (I mean, I already agonise about this stuff more than is healthy) but I'm hoping to contribute to more general awareness-raising. Hopefully without making myself more depressed in the process...

nou July 4 2014, 08:03:59 UTC

Not sure about freezing yoghurt, but it's worth a try! I tried to make it myself a long time ago (as in, I was still living in Wales) but it didn't work, not sure why.

General awareness-raising is one of the things I'm hoping for too. Apparently I got a mention in one of the local papers last week! I didn't find this out in time to buy a copy, though (I'll have a look at the library copy next time I'm there).