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52Eco#1 Pick up litter.
Picking up even just one bit of litter each time you are out and about will open your eyes to the scale of the plastic pollution problem....
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make one change a week for a year
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52Eco#2 Take a washable reusable bag out shopping with you.
Save yourself some money and stop adding to landfill by getting in the habit of taking a reusable shopping bag out with you. Always. With...
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52Eco#3 Swap your kitchen roll.
Arrgh! This was a difficult one for me. I was a BIG fan of traditional kitchen roll, I would use it for everything. But I knew it was...
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52Eco#4 Stop junk mail arriving.
Junk mail is annoying to sort through and it is a waste of paper (meaning a waste of trees). There are 4 steps to stopping almost all...
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52Eco#5 Make recycling easier.
Put a recycling box in your kitchen and a recycling box in your bathroom. Make sure you have a recycling box on each floor of your house....
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52Eco#6 Avoid palm oil or check that it is sustainable.
Palm oil comes, not from regular palm trees, but from the 'oil palm' - this tree grew originally in Africa, but is now being farmed in...
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52Eco#7 Stop using plastic-containing baby wipes.
Baby wipes are so useful! But almost all of them contain plastic and so won't break down for hundreds of years. **UPDATE! Aldi stores now...
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52Eco#8 Say no to disposable cutlery. ***Sew-along Video***
Plastic spoons. Plastic stirrers. Plastic knives and forks. Plastic straws. These are offered to us by virtually every cafe and...
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52Eco#9 Use a multitasking moisturiser in a glass jar.
Organic coconut oil in a huge glass jar has replaced a number of plastic-packaged potions and lotions in our house. **Winter Update** In...
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52Eco#10 Use sugar instead of glitter.
'Traditional' glitter is made of teeny tiny bits of plastic. So when glitter is stuck onto a card, daubed on a picture, painted on a face...
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