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Plastic -- bah -- I have been waging war on the filthy stuff for over a year now and I don't mean just refusing carrier bags. One use plastic products are a dirty, expensive, possibly carcinogenic, profligate use of the worlds resources resulting in an overwhelming tide of permanent, non biodegradable debris.

I hate them

So last year decided I would boycott one use disposable plastic packaging, bags, bottles and stupid free coat hangers that snap before you get home.

But is it actually possible to live without such stuff?

Looking around my house January 07 - so many months ago everything was plastic packed from food to knickers to post. An immediate boycott would obviously result in personal hygiene issues, scurvy, rickets and ultimate starvation not to mention some very draughty skirts.

I mean just look in your cupboards and bins to see just how much plastic there is in there.

So I decided to implement a rolling programme. Each month I would veto a plastic product. This would give me time to research better packaged, more sustainable, biodegradable alternatives or come to terms with doing without.

I started in January 07 and since then have boycotted up all manner of things from cotton buds to plastic packed cheese, shampoo to tic tacs. For most of these objects I have managed to find sustainable alternatives - yes there are non plastic packaged goods out there. I have had to give up suprisingly few things.What seemed almost impossible at the beginning of my boycott has in fact proved easier than I thought and the contents of my black bin have been massively reduced.

I am on year two of my plastic boycott and but now its getting serious - my god soon I will have to give up tonic water - what about the gin and its. I will make my own toothpaste and never eat crisps again but no G&Ts?????????

Will this be the end of my quest. To find out if a ginless life is the cause of my downfall and lots more information on plastic free products go to

http://www.plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com/.

Sorry E blogger - you didnt quite meet my needs.