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Post by moonsmith on Mar 24, 2008 23:26:12 GMT 1
I'm as bad as anyone on this. We didn't fill the landfill bin at Xmas - but we did over this Easter. I can't see that there is any more packaging this year than last and there were 10 of us on the day but still - so much un-recyclable stuff.
We DID recycle all the cardboard - it was those stupid clear plastic molds inside.
Does anyone have a way of re-using those for anything?
They don't even crush well and slowly ooze back to almost their original size.
I have often dreamed of a device that heats plastic just enough to make it malleable so it sets into a flat shape, without emitting dioxins. [If it didn't emit, I'd burn the stuff]
Right - Next easter packaging is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig issue.
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Post by wyrdewood on Mar 25, 2008 12:17:36 GMT 1
Not being tight or anything, but we have encouraged our family to give bars of chocolate instead of eggs for two reasons. 1) The amount of packaging is far less 2) You get almost twice the chocolate for your money. I know this isn't really the answer you wanted Pat but it is more about tackling the root of the problem rather than the consequence I think. I just thought, you could always just take some scissors and cut it up into flatter pieces. Ta Da! It won't spring back then!!  ;D |
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Post by Butterfly on Mar 25, 2008 17:55:33 GMT 1
The packaging in our house has saved me a fortune in rat toys, and bed boxes...They chew up everything bought, so e.egg boxes are going down a treat, infact any small boxes are great, Bailey does a great teabag impression, and what a lovely annoying noise a paper chemist bag makes! Especially funny when one rat is in it and the other jumps on the top...
But seriously, these boxes are a really awful waste, next year as i have planned so many years before i will be making many many of my own chocolate eggs.....Well the proof will be next year...we'll seexxx
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Post by admin on Mar 26, 2008 10:22:01 GMT 1
Sainsbury's in Redditch has a plastic recycling container, so all our hard plastic from food wrapping goes there. The cardboard gets recycled and the foil goes into our aluminium scrap bin to pay towards our holidays in Paris.
Rhiannon
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Post by sleepyowl on Mar 26, 2008 15:58:19 GMT 1
I didn't get any easter eggs or anything else come to think of it this year so I don't have that problem
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Post by moonsmith on Mar 26, 2008 19:58:07 GMT 1
Nope - you are absolutely right Julian - next year its blocks of chocolate - quantity has to be better than a third dimension. Anyway - where could I ever get an 85% chocolate egg!  Anyone know where I can buy some of that 100% that I saw being made on TV? I'm sure I could fly if I got my hands on THAT.  Add in the low packaging and its a no brainer isn't it! Aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 'Owl -  |
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Post by evadarkness on Mar 27, 2008 22:07:34 GMT 1
I read somewhere (may have been the Metro) that one of the main suppliers of chocolate eggs was going to offer both the overpacked traditional type egg and the more eco-friendly just wrapped in recyclable foil type. The story claimed that which one sold more they would do more of next year - so if people did choose the eco-friendly ones they would produce less of the waste-friendly ones.
So - maybe if everyone buys only eco-friendly and writed letters to that effect to suppliers? Money talks - look at dolphin friendly tuna - it is everywhere now because people voted with their wallets.
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