Just a quick update of Day 2: it was actually a pretty easy day as far as plastic refusal went. The hardest bit was actually saying no to a bar of chocolate. Thank goodness for foil wrapped Cadbury's Creme Eggs. I am usually very strict about not having easter chocolate before easter, but I think I am entitled to the odd one here and there. Right?
Anyway the Indian Take-away dilema.....
So I get home with a bag full of non plasticised vegetables and the non plasticised cheese (which the cheese man on the market found rather amusing, but yey I found cheese) and my partner says, "I know that you have already bought food for tonight, but it is Friday, do you fancy a treat? Indian perhaps?" " Yes please," I would never say no to a curry. So we drive up to Curry Queen to pick it up and low and behold it is all in a plastic bag, "Oh blinking heck." Liam says that he will take the responsibility of the plastic bag because he bought the Indian, I am grateful for the gesture, but not satisfied with the solution. Then when we get home, what is supposed to be a bag of delicious indian delights; my vegetable biriyani, a vegetable samosa, peshwari naan and popadoms, is actually a hideous bag of plastic!!!!!
So what have we got in this plastic bag of 'delights'?
- Plastic card type lids. Urgh!!!!
- A plastic bag, filled with sweaty salad. Yummy!!!
- Two plastic pots for the mint yoghurt (we get extras for being loyal customers!!!)
Dont panic, dont panic!!! This is not a fail on day three. Although there is nothing I can do with the little plastic salad bag, I am afraid I resigned to pop this into our little landfill bin. But after some careful brain storming everything else has been upcycled. Heres how....The little plastic yoghurt pots are going to be used to either raise little seedlings or as portable sauce containers. Even thinking about it now, I could use them to take a little bit of milk to work, so I can have a proper cuppa.
The plastic bag I am going to save to knit a funky plastic carrier, as sold in Urban Larder, Mill Road, Cambridge. Apparently you need 55 bags to knit one of those. Thats going to be a challenge, but my Dad really wants one after seeing them in i so I am eager to make him one.
As for the plastic lids I thought 'I cant let these go in the bin, there has to be something I can do with them'. Because of the lids waterproof qualities, I thought I might be able to make them into mini whiteboard style memo boards, but the red board marker just left a big dirty smudge.
What on earth can I do with these??............. How about a photograph mobile?Great! So I washed the lids, cut off the curry stained edges and dug out some of my favourite photographs (taken by my good friend John) of a trip to Arran, Scotland. I used the additional brown paper bag that the indian came in as a mount, to add some shape and colour and then strung them together with some string. And here it is... my Mobile of Memories.
Parental Advisory Notice: Anyone under the age of 22 years old must be supervised by a responsible adult to avoid injuries, which could lead to the requirement of plaster (ironically made of plastic).
Love and hugs,
Jade
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