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Listed below are comments made by DrSumeet between Monday, 11th August 2008 and Sunday, 17th August 2008.

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Beefed up 01:01am on 17 Aug 2008 I'm glad that you are doing this. Not because plastic is bad, in fact its great stuff. I'm glad to see someone test the idea of abandoning plastic, show how much we really use it and how great it is. I'm disappointed that you are not mentioning that plastics can and should be reused and recycled. The fact they don't degrade means they are great for making long lasting products. People just use plastics badly. We waste plastics and think that because they are lightweight and cheap they can be thrown out. There are plenty of solutions. Don't buy what you don't need. Minimising the amount of packaging for all the things, but not just the plastic packaging. If it can be sold naked or with one thin layer protection then great. If not, then be realistic and go for the option with the best life-cycle impact. We try to do everything. We don't take plastic bags when we shop. We recycle and reuse everything we can. We don't buy what we won't use. We buy at the butchers to avoid the big plastic boxes that supermarkets give you, with small bits of meat in them that take up loads of space in the freezer. The butcher gives us a small plastic bag about the size of the meat and we can fit more into the freezer space we have. Before we found a good butcher we recycled all meat containers we got from the supermarket. Its not easy, not in our flat but we try. I just can't wait for the councils around the country to recycle all that can be recycled, compost all that cannot be recycled but can be composted, and burn the rest for energy so nothing goes to landfill.
Toothy grin? 5:20pm on 11 Aug 2008 I was just wondering if the ingredients for the dentifrice (salt, bicarbonate of soda, permermint oil and glycerine) come in plastic packaging? Also, black powder is used in India, I think its just a form of carbon. So, you can light a match and then blow it out. You can then crush the charred bit and use it to clean your teeth. This is only if you want to avoid buying the Indian powder which, I think comes in a plastic container.

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