At the weekend I was in Glasgow for a Stag Do. When the lads jumped off to Greggs for a pastie, I had to head into Lidl and grab myself some fresh fruit without packaging, and a couple of pastries without getting a takeaway plastic bag. When we went for dinner, I couldn’t have ketchup with my chips as they only had the individual sachets! When the chaps went into an assortment of fast food chains at the end of the night, I stumbled back to my hotel room for a sad apple and orange, not the ideal post boozing nourishment one craves. This hotel was better than the last though, in that it had shampoo/conditioner affixed to the wall, which they presumably just refill (though I again had to restrain from having the coffee/tea sachets in the mornings and head out to a nearby coffee shop instead). The hotel room also had a card that you put into the slot to work the electrics in the room, so it stops lights from being left on unnecessarily. I did get caught out in one of the night clubs however, as past a certain hour they are no longer allowed to use glass, and so use single use plastic cups. I was determined not to let this affect me too much though, so I ended up asking the staff to reuse the same cup and to not put in the inevitable straw (who drinks whisky through a straw?).
Anyway, it just hit home how much we are surrounded by this single use plastic and sometimes how hard it can be to get away from it. (e.g. buying bus tickets with no option but to take the paper, which you will only use that once!).
