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Recycled and recyclable

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Here’s a really good example of recycling. It’s a product from Ecover where the cardboard packaging was already 100% recycled and is also recyclable. Recycled and recyclable – that’s great.

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This product from Ecover was their All-In-One Dishwasher Tablets. Yes, I know it’s bad that I’m using a dishwasher as I’m sure it would create less impact on the environment if I washed the dishes by hand. But remember that one of the main ideas behind Use 10 Percent Less is that you don’t have to go from zero to hero in one huge step. If the whole world can start reducing consumption by just 10 percent, right now, that would be a tremendous relief for the planet and the environment.

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Non Recyclable Packaging

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Do you ever bother to look at the back of the package you’re buying to see its recycling status? Even better, it’s good to check if it’s already recycled. I’m constantly amazed how often the packaging is clearly labelled as non recyclable packaging. In the UK this is defined as “not currently recycled”.

Non Recyclable Packaging

 

This is so bad. We all know about the plastic crisis the world is facing – how can it still be legal for companies to produce packaging that can’t be recycled? We know that Two Farmers have solved this problem and are using compostable packaging, so there should be no excuse for big name companies, like Kettle, to use non recyclable packaging but they do, as you can see here.

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And, as you can see below, there are ultra-cheap Cheese Puffs from Happy Shopper that also come in non recyclable packaging. That just shows how cheap this packaging must be. I’m sure that using recycled or compostable packaging must be more expensive and that’s why it’s avoided.

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