One of the biggest campaigns here that has captured the attention of the media and retailers is against plastics, particularly plastic bags. The Daily Mail ran a few articles yesterday about how Marks & Spencers will start charging 5p for each single use plastic bag they hand out. Instead, they are preparing to give away free bags for life to customers instead, to encourage less use of single-use plastic bags that are a key pollutant in British waters and land.
I re-use nearly every single supermarket issued plastic bags as rubbish bags anyway, but reckoned that they build up much faster than I can use them, so treat myself to intermissions of reusable, eco-friendly bags every now and then to make my supermarket issued plastic bag supply decrease a little before I start up again.
Here's an idea where something good can come out of something not-quite-as-good-but-which-we-do-anyway.
You know how most people visit hotels and end up pilfering laundry bags, shoe bags and shopping bags, especially the cotton woven ones that are usually provided by hotels in countries with low cost labour?
Yes you do. They're the ones that usually come labelled with a "Not For Sale", "Do Not Remove" indications.
Browsing through Eco Bags (http://www.ecobags.com/) today, it struck me how many of these eco-bags actually look like they may be exactly the same bags as the laundry bags many of us pilfer for free.
Why not do something useful with the petty crime? Reuse these bags as grocery bags on Wednesdays when shopping in Carrefour or bring a couple with you when you go shopping and refuse a single-use, standard issue plastic bag. It's not Anya Hindmarch, but can still do something for the world.
Friday, February 29, 2008
La Petite Moi
On the plane ride back yesterday night, I realized that I really don't like reading newspapers. And with that thought, came to a stunning realization about myself.
Some people have lifelong passions and interests that they take very seriously. They have strong likes and dislikes, strong loves and hates. And some people, people like me, I think don't have very many large, intense, long-lasting loves and hates. They have quirks.
It has always been a difficulty for me to introduce myself. I can never really think of what to say, which is impossible, because while I do believe that I'm a relatively interesting person, I don't think that I have relatively interesting interests.
Because it's so hard coming up with likes and dislikes on the fly, I've decided last night to compile an accurate list for future reference, a list of quirks, if you will.
By some strange coincidence of fate I actually believe that many people end up sharing these quirks, whether they realise it or not.
La Petite Moi, a profile in miniature
LIKES
Some people have lifelong passions and interests that they take very seriously. They have strong likes and dislikes, strong loves and hates. And some people, people like me, I think don't have very many large, intense, long-lasting loves and hates. They have quirks.
It has always been a difficulty for me to introduce myself. I can never really think of what to say, which is impossible, because while I do believe that I'm a relatively interesting person, I don't think that I have relatively interesting interests.
Because it's so hard coming up with likes and dislikes on the fly, I've decided last night to compile an accurate list for future reference, a list of quirks, if you will.
By some strange coincidence of fate I actually believe that many people end up sharing these quirks, whether they realise it or not.
La Petite Moi, a profile in miniature
LIKES
- Drinking tea
- Thinking in the shower
- Singing
DISLIKES
- Reading newspapers
- Puzzling Rubik's Cubes (I've never successfully completed one in my entire life, and I don't think I'm stupid, I just don't have Rubik's Cubes' intelligence)
- Three Dimensions
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