Mid-year review

What’s the best way to assess your plastic usage? Keep all of it.

Pledge to keep everything that is neither biodegradable nor recyclable in your area or office. A nice idea is to fill a jar and see how long it takes to fill it. It makes it all the more horrifying when you have to thrown it away in bulk, knowing that it’s destined for the landfill.

It also makes you consider how much you want that bag of crisps knowing that the bag will be hanging around for decades. Conveniently, processed food usually comes in plastic so it makes it quite easy to avoid.

2017

July to December

Karg’s wrappers and ties
Crisp packets
Sweet wrappers
Blister packs
Coffee lid
Quorn sausage roll packet
Chocolate bar foil
Coffee machine cups (damn machine occasionally ignores my mug!)

January - June

Karg’s wrappers
Roasted fava beans
Cracker box
Crisps
Blister pack
Apple stickers
Coffee lids
Quorn sausage roll
Chocolate bar foil

2016

Tin foil from chocolate bars and breakfast roll
Fruit trays
Apple stickers
Coffee lids
Bike light/shirt packaging
Vitamins and medicine In blister packs
Assorted plastic bags (mostly fruit and bread)
Foil wrappers from crisps, seeds and chocolate