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Plastic Free July – Day One

I've decided to go plastic free in July. Apparently this is a thing. I'd never heard about Plastic Free July until someone mentioned it to me a few weeks ago. Why July? Who knows, but it seems like...

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Is disorganisation the real reason for plastic waste?

In my case, yes. I have very good intentions. I want to grow all my food from scratch, then make delicious meals from it that I take to work every day. I want to only ever drink tap water from my...

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Chester Zoo – tears, tantrums and orangutans

Taking kids to a zoo is a great idea, right? Well this is what we naively thought. Instead of it being a fun time for all, it was a horror show of epic Joni tantrums as she recoiled in terror at...

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Wasteful Wilko Crafting

When you think of kids' crafts, you might think of houses made from cereal boxes or rockets made from washing up bottles. But this Blue Peter fuelled utopia is no more. Now 99% of children's craft...

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Ditching the night nappies

I've been reading up on the horrors of nappies recently and come across such guilt-inducing gems like these: Disposable nappies take 500 years to decompose They need over 44 times more...

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The Problem with Plastic Toys

I grew up in the 1980s in Bridlington, a North East seaside town full of amusements, tat shops and fish and chip shops. Amongst these seaside staples was Kirby’s Toyshop. Located on Chapel Street,...

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