Wood burning smell in the air in balmoral/chancery area

[Nihauma]

Imami:

ngl2010:

I cannot do without plastic bags. How do you throw your rubbish without using rubbish bag?

for me, we still use plastic bag to throw rubbish but very minimal.

Most of the food waste as put into those ta bao bowls and brought to the dogs belonging to the neighbors or a temple in the neighbourhood.

Boxes, paper packages, tetra packs for drinks, clean newspapers are flattened, collected and brought to the recycling bins. Bottles - plastic or glass - and tins go along too.

The used tissue papers will go into the toilet bowl.

So end up, very little stuff ended up in the rubbish bin.

yes yes that is what is practised in my house too. we hv one big bag to put papers and bottles. we bring this down for recycling evrytime it is full. i always bring my own bag when grocery shopping. i find it easier to carry one big bag than carrying so many pplastic bags. especially when carrying bb. the cashiers like to give plastic bags. one bag sometimes contain one or two items only.

before i practised this a few years ago i ended up with so many bags that it filled 3 to four giant bags. it has been a few years and i am still trying to finish these bags. now i think still have one big bag left....

it is the least i can do for the environment.

[ammonite]

I cannot do without plastic bags. How do you throw your rubbish without using rubbish bag?


I can't. But I still have far more plastic bags than I need. :oops:

Another one that is hard - cutting down on tissue paper. I remember how we used to use handkerchiefs instead of disposable tissue paper. Maybe it is time to revive that. Still need tissue paper for runny noses though...

[Sun_2010]

ammonite:

I cannot do without plastic bags. How do you throw your rubbish without using rubbish bag?


I can't. But I still have far more plastic bags than I need. :oops:

Another one that is hard - cutting down on tissue paper. I remember how we used to use handkerchiefs instead of disposable tissue paper. Maybe it is time to revive that. Still need tissue paper for runny noses though...

Great idea.
I have been thinking of that too. But it also has another selfish motive. I feel the chemical in tissue papers are not a good idea. Soft cotton hankerchiefs is a better deal. Of course an added headache for maintenance.

[keroppi]

ammonite:

Another one that is hard - cutting down on tissue paper. I remember how we used to use handkerchiefs instead of disposable tissue paper. Maybe it is time to revive that. Still need tissue paper for runny noses though...

This is hard. More than half my family members have allergic rhinitis, a lot of ah-choos and sniffles, we sure need lots of tissue. It's too unhygenic to use a hanky.

[Funz]

Sun_2010:

ammonite:

I cannot do without plastic bags. How do you throw your rubbish without using rubbish bag?


I can't. But I still have far more plastic bags than I need. :oops:

Another one that is hard - cutting down on tissue paper. I remember how we used to use handkerchiefs instead of disposable tissue paper. Maybe it is time to revive that. Still need tissue paper for runny noses though...

Great idea.
I have been thinking of that too. But it also has another selfish motive. I feel the chemical in tissue papers are not a good idea. Soft cotton hankerchiefs is a better deal. Of course an added headache for maintenance.

Seriously, this one for hygiene purpose, I will not adopt.

[ngl2010]

Sun_2010:

ammonite:

I cannot do without plastic bags. How do you throw your rubbish without using rubbish bag?


I can't. But I still have far more plastic bags than I need. :oops:

Another one that is hard - cutting down on tissue paper. I remember how we used to use handkerchiefs instead of disposable tissue paper. Maybe it is time to revive that. Still need tissue paper for runny noses though...

Great idea.
I have been thinking of that too. But it also has another selfish motive. I feel the chemical in tissue papers are not a good idea. Soft cotton hankerchiefs is a better deal. Of course an added headache for maintenance.

Handkerchief needs to be washed and ironed. Would the water and electricity used add to pollution?

[Sun_2010]

Funz:

Sun_2010:

[quote=\"ammonite\"]I cannot do without plastic bags. How do you throw your rubbish without using rubbish bag?


I can't. But I still have far more plastic bags than I need. :oops:

Another one that is hard - cutting down on tissue paper. I remember how we used to use handkerchiefs instead of disposable tissue paper. Maybe it is time to revive that. Still need tissue paper for runny noses though...

Great idea.
I have been thinking of that too. But it also has another selfish motive. I feel the chemical in tissue papers are not a good idea. Soft cotton hankerchiefs is a better deal. Of course an added headache for maintenance.

Seriously, this one for hygiene purpose, I will not adopt.[/quote]The way my kids use tissues, I should buy stocks in Kleenex...

I guess I am being silly and paranoid, as my DH points out.
But when one is not down with cold, hankerchiefs used with tissues, should work , no?

Actually too lazy to make the move, but this idea is there at the back of my mind....