Category Archives: waste

A festive blog post from liz Longden: Looking back at my blog posts it’s been nearly four months since I last wrote anything. I had been thinking that it was getting hard to find anything to say about plastic that I hadn’t already said. But it’s almost Christmas again, and the season of buying stuff.Continue reading “All I Really Want For Christmas”

It’s the school summer holidays, and I’m using my extra time and energy to try and catch up with some jobs around the house, and also things I have been trying to get done for the plastics campaign for some time. I have been going round the cafes in New Mills, asking for support forContinue reading “Taking It Further..”

Latest in the series of Rethink Plastic blogs by Liz Longden: Plastic news gets better – more people talking , thinking and acting, and plastic news gets worse – more and more plastic being found polluting the world, even in the most remote and uninhabited parts of our planet. There is still so much weContinue reading “On thinking things through..”

The 7th in our series of blogs by Liz Longden. Well into 2018, and plastic pollution is being talked about in mainstream media more and more. Even the BBC have recently featured a family who agreed to try to go completely plastic free for ten days. It’s possible now that most families have at leastContinue reading “Just Do It!”

The sixth in the series of blogs by Liz Longden. I’ve been feeling more and more hopeful about the plastics campaign in the past few weeks. I see my friends talking on social media, even starting campaigns of their own. Bollington, a very similar town to New Mills and about six miles away, is startingContinue reading “More Questions than Answers”