Single Use Plastic Packaging.
Posted: Wed 16 Aug, 2023 9:47 am
Anyone using Lions for mouldings will have received them wrapped in bubble wrap (reusable) and then removed them from what's best described as a sleeve of plastic. Obviously off a machine roll of plastic sleeve. I think that this plastic came about during the world cardboard shortage in 2021(?) so they probably have a bit of stock of it to get through.
My issue is that it's not easily reusable and therefore becomes a single use plastic heading directly into landfill with me as it's end user.
Our trade waste agreement comes with (single use) plastic bags at around £4.50 a pop, destined for landfill. Three of these plastic sleeves is almost a bag full in itself.
I've decided to send them back to Lion's for reuse, when I collect 6 of them at a time, addressed to Nicola Harrold, requesting that they be put back into the system for reuse. I'd prefer to pay for the postage for reuse than for waste collection.
Hopefully we all know about the evils of plastic and the blight that it has become on this planet, so I'm not intending on lecturing Nicola on the subject, but just as Wessex delivery service are happy to collect glass cardboard boxes for reuse, I am going to return the sleeves for reuse.
This will obviously have more impact if more people are willing to do it. It's a long road ahead, ridding the world of petrochemical by products, one step at a time. Anyone want to join in?
My issue is that it's not easily reusable and therefore becomes a single use plastic heading directly into landfill with me as it's end user.
Our trade waste agreement comes with (single use) plastic bags at around £4.50 a pop, destined for landfill. Three of these plastic sleeves is almost a bag full in itself.
I've decided to send them back to Lion's for reuse, when I collect 6 of them at a time, addressed to Nicola Harrold, requesting that they be put back into the system for reuse. I'd prefer to pay for the postage for reuse than for waste collection.
Hopefully we all know about the evils of plastic and the blight that it has become on this planet, so I'm not intending on lecturing Nicola on the subject, but just as Wessex delivery service are happy to collect glass cardboard boxes for reuse, I am going to return the sleeves for reuse.
This will obviously have more impact if more people are willing to do it. It's a long road ahead, ridding the world of petrochemical by products, one step at a time. Anyone want to join in?