plastic not at all fantastic
This entry from Tetrapod Zoology is both disheartening and depressing, and a reminder to me that it's no good allowing personal problems and stresses to obscure the need for personal action. A lot of things I used to do and value have changed - my carbon footprint has gone through the roof as a result of massively increased travel, I don't take a veg box any more and shop a lot more in supermarkets, which means more plastic packaging (and more plastic bags, cos I don't always remember to take a cloth bag with me). I feel as if I've lost track of lots of things that were/are important to me, and maybe this is a good place to start getting back to where I want to be. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to do, realistically - I think I need to do some research about what's available to me in the immediate area where I now live - but there must be SOMETHING. Like not buying bottled water to take on trains but filling my own. Or finding a farmer's market to use, this is Pimlico for God's sake, there must be one somewhere round here...