About Me

We moved out to Portugal to live a frugal but better , simpler and peaceful life, our house is a very basic, semi ruin, up in the hills outside Figueiro Dos Vinhos, where we work our land, enjoy life with each other and our dogs, and hope to make the smallest carbon footprint we can,

Monday 8 March 2010

Plastic...

So, its not just me that has a problem with plastic... the damn stuff seems to just appear...
Ive solved the problem of the damn Tetrapack thngs, everything here seems to come in them, from milk to juice to just about every liquid... Ive refused to buy almost everything now, apart from milk which we cannot manage without... and our local recycling bins have a special bin for them now.
But the horrible plastic wrapping .... its just about all that goes in my rubbish bin nowadays, as Ive improved our composting and recycling. but Ive decided to tyr to use it in another way.. Im talking about the soft filmy stuff thats wrapped around a lot of things... Ive made a door draft sausage... and stuffed it with the plastic.... its waterproof, light, and does seem to do the job...
Any more ideas ....