{"id":7867,"date":"2017-12-22T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2017-12-22T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:42:28","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-plastic-waste-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7867","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – plastic waste is everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"plastic<\/a>This week I listened to a report on plastic waste and increasing the rate of recycling in England on the radio news.\u00a0\u00a0 What is horrifying is where plastic gets into everyday products in unexpected ways.\u00a0 Its now in teabags.\u00a0 This was a real shock.\u00a0 Teabags I thought were formed only of paper.\u00a0 Apparently they used to add vegetable matter I think to hold them together better but now have replaced this with plastic.\u00a0 So putting your teabags on the compost heap only adds to the plastic waste in the environment. (In addition the thought of the plasticisers in the plastic dissolving in your tea is not an appetizing one).<\/p>\n

The discussion moved onto cucumbers.\u00a0 Shrink wrapped in plastic to protect them.\u00a0 None of this is simple but I’d rather have the food waste, than the plastic going into the environment.\u00a0 Recycling rates have stalled in England (Wales does really really well) supposedly due to the fact that all the easy to collect places have been done.\u00a0 Flats are much more difficult to collect recycling from.\u00a0 (Although Wales has managed to collect very much higher levels?!)\u00a0 The government wants to make recycling uniform over England and part of me can see this is a good idea (rural areas being really behind throughout the UK).\u00a0 Part of me thinks this takes no account of local conditions.\u00a0\u00a0 One thing is for certain the government needs to cut plastic use fast.\u00a0 Luckily there alternatives coming on fast.\u00a0 A company in the next lab to where I work is developing biodegradable plastic wrap made from shellfish.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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