Travelling is an expensive business. It can also be a time of much unnecessary disposables, as we want to make life easy for ourselves. We are on holiday after all. So these are just some simple ideas to make your holiday a little bit lighter on waste. I’ve said it many times, but reducing waste […]
The smoking ban is ten years old, now. It’s a new era, and it’s difficult to remember how we used to sit in a massive thick chemical fog of fag smoke, down the pub. Why did we do it? The plastic bag charge will be two years old in October. It’s already starting to feel […]
By 2050, it’s predicted that there will be more plastic in the sea than fish. Plastic straws are one of the top offenders in beach clean-ups around the world, and a perfect size for getting stuck down throats of unsuspecting marine life. Luckily, we have a very handy, man-made construct for drinking fluids. It’s called […]
Today marks the start of Plastic Free July. We all know the reasons why wrapping every bastard thing in plastic is a bad idea. But our current shopping system makes it very hard to avoid mountains of the stuff in our bins every month. Bad for the planet, bad for your Slim Bin. Over the […]