Save your empty crisp packets

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Re: Save your empty crisp packets

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Recycling is better than nothing, and I dare say the packets go off on a ship that had delivered a lot of cheap consumer goods and would otherwise be going back empty.

In my view the best way with these things is try to avoid the packaging. Crisps are something with such a massive mark up, I hardly ever buy them. You can cut up a spud with a potato peeler and fry your own, they are nice with vegetable bouillon or just salt. You can also use parsnips and beetroot, like the really expensive crisps!
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Surely if crisp packets can be recycled would it not be better to do it here in the UK rather than ship them to the Philipines :?
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I re-use rather than recycle my wine corks (both natural cork ones and plastic) by using them in the botton of planters or plant pots to aid drainage (cutting them up if smaller peices are required).
Works a treat.
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In the case of cork, 41 species of insects and other animals are affected by the industry.
Some are the following.
1 The trees have to be harvested otherwise they die.
2.If the trees go, so does the liveihood of the cork oak farmers, and the pig farmers who produce quality ham, because they use the orchards to produce the pigs for the ham.
3.The trees also support and give a habitat for dozens of birds and insects.
4. What would they replace the cork orchards with anyway then?
Its very rare for cork to contaminate wine anyway. Cork is also biodegradable anyway and plastic isnt. Those bl@@dy plastic corks get stuck in the bottle anyway. I hate screw top bottles as well, because then you have to recycle the cap seperately from the bottle. As others do, you can use your corks for all sorts of things in the home or garden.
Sending crisp bags to 3rd world countries to make them into other things, on the face of it seems to be a good idea, but surely we should be more enterprising here and do it ourselves. Maybe its just laziness.
Instead of punishing the British public by finening us for not recylcli, they should heavily come down on manufacturers who sell things so heavily packadged. I personally dont ask for all the packets and card I am presented with.
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I've got to agree with you SS in you summing up of the case for real corks.
I do also prefer taking a proper cork out of a wine bottle and I always use real corks for my home made wine. :-D
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As a girlie girl who makes wine, I hate the plastic corks as I cannot get them into the bottles, even with my corker and after eating lots of spinach.
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You cant a;ways get them out of the blasted bottles either. I hate them
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the best things to do with things like crisp packets and non-reusable packaging is to make it out of something that can either be decomposed or recycled.

i know of a designer that makes garments out of sweet boxes, paper napkins ect. but i cant remember his name {cry}
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