Recycling plastic
Plastic makes great containers – light-weight, unbreakable, attractive, clear, long lasting. A shame they are all made from oil-based products and take around 1000 years to degrade!!
Unfortunately recycling plastic bottles is often difficult. This is because when local councils report on the amount of recycled waste, statistics are based largely around weight. Plastic bottles will always come at the end of the line of their priorities, since they are bulky and light. Pressure on councils to make plastic recycling more accessible will ultimately bring benefits.
Try buying milk in cardboard cartons or better still through bottles if you are fortunate to still have a local delivery service and enough income to pay 2 or 3 times more for your milk.
Recently there has been great progress towards reducing or abolishing the routine use of plastic bags after many years of campaigning.
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Useful links
Plastic Bag Free Modbury’s website listing alternative sources of non plastic bags
Daily Mail Banish the plastic bags
Abolish Plastic Bags Longstanding campaign site
Plastic Bag Free The story of Modbury
Envirogreen recycling Calculate the carbon benefits of recycling