FabSwingers.com forum: Eco

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Serious one from me

Eco products. Do you use any? Have you made switches? Do you want to?

I've made a few changes, mainly to reduce plastic use and buy local from small businesses. Hoping to do more this year and reduce my plastic use further.

I'll list mine below:

Soap/shampoo/conditioner bars

Plastic free tea bags

Cloths rather than wipes

Make bread instead of buy

Menstrual cup

Metal/silicone reusable straws

Reusable cups/cafe cups

Local veg

Local meat

If shopping at the supermarket - buy loose/from the UK.

Maybe it'll be helpful for those that do use eco products to share your swaps?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

As a bread baker - Summer only as a rule - how is that eco ?

It's massively time consuming and heat consuming.

How is it eco ?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

P.S. I've never used wipes. Always cloths. That's a cost thing with me.

Can't bear to take out a silly little wipe and then throw it away. I'm a hot water n cloth woman

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

I'm only showing my ignorance here BUT all my cups are re usable..... ???

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"As a bread baker - Summer only as a rule - how is that eco ?

It's massively time consuming and heat consuming.

How is it eco ?"

Eco friendly - not necessarily eco regarding time. Rather than buying bread in plastic packaging, or having to drive to the shops when you've ran out of bread.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm only showing my ignorance here BUT all my cups are re usable..... ??? "

Cafe cups, rather than using those cardboard ones. Do I need to break everything down for you?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

"As a bread baker - Summer only as a rule - how is that eco ?

It's massively time consuming and heat consuming.

How is it eco ?

Eco friendly - not necessarily eco regarding time. Rather than buying bread in plastic packaging, or having to drive to the shops when you've ran out of bread."

I knew the time wasn't eco but I don't think the saving of one plastic bag outweights the amount of gas I spend proving , warming the oven and baking .....

Must be more eco to switch to bread in non plastic wrappers.

I rarely drive to the shops. I walk but I get that those with families or who live far away can't do that.

I'm going to think about what I do do that's regarded as eco.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

"I'm only showing my ignorance here BUT all my cups are re usable..... ???

Cafe cups, rather than using those cardboard ones. Do I need to break everything down for you?

Seems so......

I won't buy coffee out ..... cept at Wetherspoons and they use re-useable cups.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are many farms here where I live so I buy from the farm shops.

I’ve been using re useable products for a while now for cleaning. I have those things that you put in the toilet tank to save water when flushing. I hardly ever have the heating on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I tried using the a shampoo bar but it didn’t suit my hair, I have gone back to my previous brand of shampoo but a different variety. I still use the shampoo bar on the skin under my boobs as I suffer from “intertrigo” (sweaty rash) and this has completely done away with it. I also have a friend who gets the same, & she also uses the bar with the same results.

I reuse shopping bags

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We should go back to getting milk delivered in returnable glass bottles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Serious one from me

Eco products. Do you use any? Have you made switches? Do you want to?

I've made a few changes, mainly to reduce plastic use and buy local from small businesses. Hoping to do more this year and reduce my plastic use further.

I'll list mine below:

Soap/shampoo/conditioner bars

Plastic free tea bags

Cloths rather than wipes

Make bread instead of buy

Menstrual cup

Metal/silicone reusable straws

Reusable cups/cafe cups

Local veg

Local meat

If shopping at the supermarket - buy loose/from the UK.

Maybe it'll be helpful for those that do use eco products to share your swaps?

We use most of those apart from meat. My wife used a menstrual cup for a while but kept getting cystitis.

Black African soap is nice.

We recycle clothes and maybe about half our clothes are secondhand.

Our camper is solar powered which is satisfying when we charge stuff up with it. Obviously it burns diesel too so not entirely eco!

Sourdough bread only takes 35 mins in the oven. I'd say that's a pretty good alternative to store bought

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Milk, cheese and eggs from the farm shop

Avoid plastic packaging so buy my fruit and veg loose

Eco cleaning products

Meat from the butchers

Walk when I can

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"We should go back to getting milk delivered in returnable glass bottles "

Ah yes, we get that too

Although frustrating in summer when you forget it was milk delivery date..

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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago

Terra Firma

My biggest eco change was LED light bulbs, they use a lot less energy about 75% less and last around 50,000 hours.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My line of work is within ECO transportation, its a very big part of my life.

All food is plastic free and local free range/organic, anything else i only buy the product if the packaging is recyclable.

I have heatsource pump in my home that scavenges heat and recycles it to produce heating.

Everything i introduce into my life i really go indepth to make sure its enviro friendly.

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