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Plastic Fantastic
15/07/2016 10:00 pmIt’s now 2 weeks into the Plastic Free July challenge which involves avoiding all single use plastics such as water bottles, take away coffee cups, straws and the ubiquitous grey plastic shopping back so freely handed out at the checkouts here in Oz.
It just so happens that I do not have a problem with any of those except on the odd occasion of forgetting to bring a shopping bag. It’s not a proper coffee unless it’s in a cup. For me the point of a coffee is not the buzz nor the quick fix but a chance to sit in a cosy cafe, preferably in the garden with the newspapers or some magazine and watching the world go by.
Same goes for plastic water bottles. I can get the stuff delivered to the tap for $1.50 for 1,000 litres so why would I spend twice that much for 600ml of the stuff sitting on a shelf? Plastic stagnant muck.
But it is everything else that is the problem.
( Plastic plastic everywhere )
It just so happens that I do not have a problem with any of those except on the odd occasion of forgetting to bring a shopping bag. It’s not a proper coffee unless it’s in a cup. For me the point of a coffee is not the buzz nor the quick fix but a chance to sit in a cosy cafe, preferably in the garden with the newspapers or some magazine and watching the world go by.
Same goes for plastic water bottles. I can get the stuff delivered to the tap for $1.50 for 1,000 litres so why would I spend twice that much for 600ml of the stuff sitting on a shelf? Plastic stagnant muck.
But it is everything else that is the problem.
( Plastic plastic everywhere )
