What are your Eco sins?

Yeah that’s really shitty behaviour.

Ooo freezing the food waste - ours would fill my freezer though.

I'd never buy council compost. That is where the stuff I don't want in my compost goes

Only problem with that is when they don’t notice and people end up buying bags of compost with broken sharps things and random fabric in it. Which is dangerous and annoying.

I’ve stopped buying the council compost because of it.

I refuse to use the food caddy the council provides. I love kitchen roll. I recycle downstairs but everything upstairs gets chucked in the general bin. I use my tumble dryer every single day.

I also have 2 electric cars and have solar panels with 6 batteries. I only eat meat but it all comes from a farm 2 miles down the road. I’m doing far better than vegetarians eating veg that have travelled thousands of miles.

I use a tumble dryer
coffee pods
flying a few times a year
I don't use that deodorant where you reuse the main bit. I have one its shit and expensive
I keep forgetting my reusable coffee cup

but I do rarely forget shopping bags

I tried washable period pants and went back to sanitary towels.
I also sometimes chuck things away when I'm having a de-clutter, instead of going through the hassle of donating to charity shops. I know that's bad.

But usually recycle properly, garden, share a car with dh and very rarely fly.

The Tumble Dryer.

Life is cruel that it effects the environment when my life is all about running about everywhere and not being at home enough to get clothes dry from the line (although I do try)

And lately cleaning wipes, which I hate myself for but my god they’re amazing!!

I am religious at recycling, don’t really fly, conserve water to the n’th degree, compost, reuse where possible, buy as few clothes and things as possible (though who knows if I wasn’t on mw!), use cosmetics etc fully up before buying more etc

Diesel car that I don’t wash, don’t wash recycling, I water my garden, eat meat, got a dog, save all my emails and stuff in the cloud (data center) fly once a year, but I don’t have kids, I have solar and a heat pump so I figure I’m probably ok in the grand scheme of things

I refuse to wash any laundry (except silks and woollens) at less than 40 degrees. All towels and bedding and kitchen cloths etc get long 60 degree washes.

Other than that I'm pretty good. I save water for the garden, I recycle everything, I buy almost nothing, I wear clothes until they wear out, our car is 15 years old. One short haul trip per year, if that.

Drive a big diesel
Drive to Spain several times a year
Fly to Spain at least 7 times a year
Use the dishwasher daily
Kill house and garden plants
On the other hand I do help a hedgehog rescue

I tumble dry everything as it saves ironing. I have air con throughout my house. I drive a big car. I refuse to use a stinking food recycling bin so I have a waste disposal unit. However, to offset these sins I am more ecologically sound than the majority as I haven’t procreated.

The food waste gives me the ick so I don’t do it

Same

I bought aircon

I buy too much food and end up throwing some away every week
I use too much kitchen roll
I buy too much crap (although I do donate a lot to charity shops)

OTOH:
I don’t have kids
I’ve flown maybe six times in the last ten years
I recycle every piece of paper religiously
I use blankets, jumpers and hot water bottles rather than put the heating on (where it’s bearable)
I didn’t own a car till I was 51

Fly loads
Buy loads
Eat loads of meat
Not bothered about recycling
Shower or bath twice a day

For balance

Take own shopping bags
Fanatical about turning lights and a/c off when not in use
No children

I sometimes put stuff that could be recycled straight in the normal bin because ive reached the end of my tether with cleaning. I do have 3 young kids and a disabled mum to care for so i kinda dont feel too guilty. I do mostly recycle. But sometimes i just have to chuck a bunch of stuff away coz i cannot cope

I love cut flowers. And out of season fruits and veg. Otherwise I’m pretty good - don’t
own a car, hardly ever fly, re-use as much as I can, don’t buy anything from Amazon, Temu etc

Leave the tap running when I’m brushing my teeth.
I am sure my pleather skirt/jacket are terrible environmentally.

otoh
Don’t water the lawn (I am watering my lovely and expensive plants with the watering can)
Been veggie since I was 12
Don’t buy stuff with palm oil in it wherever possible
Very little food waste (our food caddy is barely even a third full on collection)
Haven’t flown anywhere since 2024 and no plans to this year or next
Electric car that I literally never wash because I’m lazy except lights and windscreens if needed
Recycle everything possible (our council gives a full size recycling bin and we wash the containers as part of the dinner washing up, so no specific extra rinsing)
No tumble dryer
No children

You're contaminating the garden waste with plastic and metal, which can spoil the entire load—not just your bin, but potentially the whole truck—and make it much harder, or even impossible, to compost properly.

Please at least put them in the general waste bin instead of hiding them in the garden waste 🙏

I use my tumble dryer.
I leave lights on in empty rooms.
I do recycle a lot of stuff, and make liberal use of the food waste bin outside.
In this weather, I freeze the bags and chuck them away the night before bin day.
I can’t contemplate the maggots. 😩

I don’t wash the containers, though. I might give them a cursory rinse under the tap, but that’s about it.
My mil (god love her) washes her recycling like a new born baby.
She’s so thorough and gentle!
I’m a lot more slap dash than she is.