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There are many things you can do to help the environment, pollute less, reduce your carbon footprint and generally help mother nature look after our planet but we are going to just focus on Plastic consumption here.

1. Buy re-useable fabric bags and remember to take them to the shops with you. Organic cotton, Jute or Hemp are preferable, Natural Cotton or Laminated Jute are the next best thing. These bags will give you years of service and save hundreds, if not thousands of plastic carrier bags.
   
   
2. Return the Plastic packaging that your food came in to the store that you bought it from (or failing that, your local supermarket). Having to deal responsibly with large quantities of recyclable plastic waste will encourage your retailers to use less to begin with.
   
   
3. Petition your MP to get the government to introduce a plastic bag tax such as they now have in Ireland. The greatest problem with all of our current carrier bags, whether Paper or Plastic is that they are free. Give someone something for free and they place no value on it, if you have to pay for your bags then you are far less likely to use them once and throw them away, whatever they are made of.
   
   
4. Petition your member of parliament to get the government to enforce a common recycling policy across all local councils so that common sorting policies can support industry’s efforts to process the waste. Accepting cans, bottles and plastic packaging but not coated cardboard or organic waste in one area and having a different collection policy in the next street is ridiculous. We still only recycle a fraction of the waste of our European neighbors and there is no reason for that other than lack of education, laziness and bureaucracy.
   
   
5. Write to your local brewery and ask them why they no longer accept bottle returns from their public houses? Even just 15 years ago all bottles in a bar, whether glass or plastic, would be put back in their respective crates and taken back to the brewery for washing and refilling. Today the breweries still collect their empty beer kegs but all the bottles must be dumped. Recycling glass bottles into new glass takes almost the same amount of energy as producing the bottle from raw materials. Whereas re-using the bottles only requires a bottle washing plant

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