no more washing up liquid bottles for me. To see what I keep my squeezy in got to http://plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com

I know .. it sounds like a Mike Liegh film

Sorry about May - one big computer crash … all info lost.. great despair and gloom.

Now I know that those of you kind enough to peruse these pages may imagine me as some kind of Birkenstock wearing earth goddess who loves nothing better than weaving yogurt while a pot of free trade, organic lentils bond themselves into a health some stew. Sadly not true. Dinner time finds me attacking the glacier that has taken up residence in our freezer in an attempt to liberate food, any kind of food, from its icy grasp.

Frozen food is important to us and I am particularly partial to frozen peas.

Sad to say plastic is rather important to frozen food .

Imagine then my whoops of joy ( I am inordinately fond of peas) when I saw the coop put much of its food in degradable packaging.

Degradable to me sounds much like biodegradable.

I could have let it go.

But I didn’t - degradable does not mean biodegradable.

It means plastic particles stuck together with biodegradable glue. Sure it breaks down faster, much faster, than conventional plastic but still into tiny invisible plastic particles - it is still basically plastic.

Good from a litter point of view but not so good from a no plastic point of veiw.

Degradable plastic is no longer allowed and frozen peas are no longer part of my diet.

For more information on degradable plastic follow this link

www.plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com