What are your Eco sins?

[Andthenthereweresome]

OK. What are your eco sins?
I’ll start

I use way too much cling film and kitchen roll. In my defence, your honour, I rarely fly and I drive a hybrid 😀
Oh and I grow my own veggies

But why? Why can't you just leave them to be collected? That makes no sense whatsoever.

My eco-sin is jacket potatoes in the oven. I was told off about it when I was a student - years (er, decades) ago! I don't like them in the microwave though. And I use a renewable tariff.

And although I don't use water in single use bottles I have a million other things in single use bottles. They do get recycled though (and not in the green waste bin!)

I actually don't get the hate for aircon, especially if you use a renewable tariff (or eg in France most of their electricity is nuclear, so not fossil fuels).

And presumably if it's going to get hotter, we'll need less heating, so it will balance out (maybe).

I wear a fresh pair of pyjamas every night. So do the kids.

I do my washing and tumble dry it.
I don’t give a crap about washing my tins and rubbish, it’s literal rubbish. We don’t actually have a recycling centre so all our “recycled rubbish” just goes to the tip anyway, so surely any food stuff left on it is good for encouraging small insects to break it down? Idk, but I don’t really care.
I run my washing machine several times a day.
I drive everywhere. We live rurally and the one time I tried to get a park and ride into our nearest town centre it was horrific and I had to get off because I had a panic attack.

on the other hand, haven’t flown in 13 years and before that hadn’t flown for 10 years.
I do try and compost as much as possible.
No food waste as it goes to the guinea pigs or next door’s chickens.

• Daily panty liners
• Cotton wool pads - reusables just don't work
• Use tumble dryer all year round
• Gas central heating on whenever I'm cold enough
• Daily baths

On the flip side:

• hardly ever drive <1000 miles per year
• share bath
• use bath water on garden (ground floor bathroom)
• no children!

Totally irresponsible not to recycle. Imagine if everyone did that.

I really don't think daily panty liners or using disposable sanitary protection is much of an eco-sin given that 93% of waste comes from industry. And why is it women who have to save on disposing of rubbish? It really annoys me.

I eat meat, drive an SUV, use a hose pipe, have astroturf and I often detach plastic bottle lids from the new style tethers.

But I take consolation that my family has a significantly lower carbon footprint than my Green Party voting in-laws who moved to Bristol specifically so they could avoid driving a nasty car to work and don’t eat meat because of the nasty cow farts heating the atmosphere. Because they fly on holiday once a year and we don’t.

This is a truly depressing thread.