Action: Switch to a supermarket delivery service
Many supermarkets in many countries now offer home delivery – here’s why it makes environmental sense It might seem a bit decadent to have your shopping delivered to your front …
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Action: Refuse to buy fruit and onions in netting
This action is a short, easy one. Please resolve to stop buying fruit and vegetables packaged in this horrible plastic netting. The netting is a completely unnecessary use of plastic. …
Action: Ditch the birthday balloons
Here’s a simple action we can all take at no cost; please stop using rubber or foil balloons as part of your celebrations of birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and so on. …
Action: Use a shopping bag
It’s easy Here is another very easy thing we can all do to reduce the amount of plastic polluting our planet or entering our waste disposal systems. Simply take, and …
Action: Take our “no plastic” picnic challenge
Your mission, should you choose to accept it … The traditional picnic is a basket of outdoor food, taken to a park or beauty spot. Often lots of packaging is …
Action: Never allow litter to be thrown from your car
Take some responsibility by making sure neither you nor your passengers litter from your car! Today’s action is about responsibility! Dropping litter from your car is a really obnoxious, anti-social …
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Action: Repair something!
Generally (and especially in the West) we live in a throwaway culture. Many things are inexpensive, easy to obtain, and have a limited lifetime. This is especially true of plastic …
Action: Collect “recycle at stores” items separately
Annoyingly, kerbside recycling doesn’t cover all food packaging – yet There are too many types of plastic in our food packaging, and not all are recyclable at the kerbside, so …
Action: Use our buying decision flow chart
Let us help you decide whether to buy Making ethical, green and sustainable decisions when we are buying is hard … we want things there and then, and in the …