What reusable/eco friendly thing is not appealing to you?

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I have reusable pads. I have silicone straws. I have reusable pouches for frozen food.

But I don’t think I could bring myself to use reusable toilet paper

@Hawkseye haha yes this is so true. The reusable eye pads are tiny circles at extortionate prices for what is a tiny bit of cloth.

The wooden forks ruin every meal. Also hate paper straws.

It really annoys me that we are so granular with all the changes and then you have other countries doing FA. Is me carrying about a horrid reusable bottle that is super difficult to clean, really going to save the world?!

Recycled wastewater is generally not potable. Unless you go to Sydney, and then it is.

Paper straws are shit. I need to dig out my reusable one and put it in my bag.
We didn't get on with the eco egg either. We use smol now for washing machine and dishwasher.
I loved my diva cup, it was softer than a moon cup. I had a heavy flow but still only emptied it every 12 hours. My periods were less painful but not shorter. I had some wet wipes in my bag to clean up my fingers in case I wasn't at home. At home I just kept a nail brush by the bathroom sink

Also using cloths as toilet roll is really unappealing. I do actually use reusable pads so I can get on board for a week a month but surely the amount of times you need to increase using your washing machine has a knock on effect. And you would still need to buy toilet paper. In my circle it wouldn't be particularly social acceptable to offer a basket of rags to guests.

How are there people worried about getting blood on their fingers !?

Ok don't go with a mooncup but it's quite hard to not get blood on fingers at all during a period !

Some interesting ideas here. Toilet cloths are one that can't reconcile. That said, I do like the idea of a bidet spray and cloths to dry, but there is zero chance of me getting DH on board.

We get on fine with silicone straws, and I like my silicone food covers. I just can't get on with wax wraps though. They're bulky, and they're a pain to rewax. I tried some reusable food bags, but they were hard to seal, hard to wash and hard to store. I still use too many plastic ones as a result, but will keep looking for an alternative that works for me.

I would love to use a mooncup/similar, but I'm one of the few they just don't work for. I've tried several, and they all either leak or rotate. Period pants are good though.

I tried eco laundry eggs and my clothes didn't smell nice. I now use smol and ecover which is much better.
I can't see me ever using resuable toilet paper, but I always use recycled or eco friendly toilet paper.
I have one pair of period pants but find they smell really bad which I never get with pads or tampons. So I only wear them around the house.
I've tried lots of eco-friendly cleaning products but never feel they clean anything better than just water! Now I buy the normal cleaners but as refill versions so I don't buy plastic bottles.

Hate paper straws.
Can't use moon cup
And no way would i use re usable loo cloths etc.
I have enough washing and i dont like the idea of piss and shit stained cloths in my machine. They'd never come up immaculate and no doubt would look stained (bearing in mind if preschooler doesn't wipe properly occasionally her pants would be stained, and yes binned!)
. I draw the line at all of the above!

@Sapphirejane @Giveaschitt
To be clear, I am talking about recycling of raw sewerage for drinking water, not recycled sewerage for crop irrigation. Most of our potable (drinking) water in Australia is sourced from rainwater, kept in tanks and big dams, and then treated with UV light etc for us to drink. Non-potable water is recycled sewerage, which is then treated at sewerage plants, and used for irrigation of crops and so on. But now there is such a need for fresh drinking water that there are communities chlorinating (and of course, other processes - I am no expert) the sewerage in order to make it potable, ie: drinkable.

I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one who is anti MoonCup.

I tried, I really tried but it just wasn't for me, and I have been eco friendly for years before it was such a big thing as it is today. There's just so much not to like <shudder>

I'm the exact same. I recommend giving it a go, I used to suffer horrendous cramping with tampons but cups don't sit at the same angle and don't irritate your cervix the same. They also don't absorb moisture the way tampons don't so you don't have the dreaded pain of removing a partially dry tampon 😣

It can take a while to find one you like but I'm lucky and the first cup I bought works an absolute treat.

Straws and wooden cutlery here too. Just ruin a nice meal/drink.

I love my period pants but hate that they take sooooo long to dry, especially when I live in one of the wettest parts of the UK! It’s great if the weather is nice and can peg out but otherwise it’s 2/3 days and then they smell damp.

But water used on crops will evaporate in to the atmosphere and return to earth as rainwater... so your drinking water sourced from rainwater will still have come from that sewerage water.

No spillage near your clothes as you do it when sitting on the loo and the angle you remove at means it dumps straight down. You can also use discs which auto dump.

Out and about you can use toilet tissue to clean or buy wipes makes for cups. My cup stays in 12hrs and i'm lucky that my flow is medium so I don't need to change it when out in public

You can boil the cup if you wish but I haven't and dont, mine stays in a pouch before use and I have a cup wash that I use each time I take it out to rinse it with

They can be worn swimming or in the bath and they don't leak/fill up with water too if that's a concern

:)

That is right and I don't argue about it. However, my original point still stands. The idea of drinking treated sewerage water makes me gag.

@Unsureaboutwhattodo - The UK and lots of other countries clean and treat their waste water into potable water as standard.

No to reusable toilet paper. I also use kitchen paper that I then throw away to clean the bathroom. I'm not convinced reusable ones are more eco in the end with the amount of washing they generate.
They hardly generate any more washing, they just go in with normal washing like towels etc. It's not like I do a separate wash each day to wash a handful of reusable kitchen roll.

Try to be very green here but laundry egg left clothes smelling fusty( now use SMOL) and toothpaste bites are just too chalky in texture.

An ad came up on my Facebook the other day for the exciting new idea of reusable tissues.

Or, as we used to call them, hankies.

In answer to the OP, one thing I just don't understand are those waxed wraps for sandwiches. Can someone explain why they're better than my current solution of an old ice cream tub for my sandwiches? Or even the slightly more aesthetically pleasing solution of a lunchbox?

Straws for me. I even hate those horrid paper ones some places have. They go soggy and not pleasant. Silicone and metal ones just feel odd...

Oh, I thought it was just me. I can’t get on with them at all. I get enough migraines as it is, so halogens for me.

Bamboo toothbrush. My teeth don’t feel clean without an electric one.

I don’t like glass straws, either. They look nicest, and make me feel less like a four year old with a milk shake, but they way they clatter on the side of the glass irritates the everlasting fuck out of me. I have silicone. No cleanliness issues. They go in the dishwasher cutlery basket with everything else.

I can’t give up my Tassimo yet either. I bought it befits the backlash, and it never occurred to me. I’ve tried stovetop stuff and it’s just not as good.

I don’t have periods anymore, but was fine with a mooncup when I did. There’s no noticeable suction, ime. I would happily use cloths for loo paper, but can’t face educating my DD it. She can’t her reliably our her crisp packets in the bin, so I can’t see her managing family cloth. I did get her period pants but they remain untested.

Walking short journeys. It’s always a pain. I walk my dogs a couple of miles each day, so it’s not that I cba. But finding the time to walk the mile and a half along a busy road to a friends, with the dogs (who can go off lead) and DD who is 12 and slouches along whinging) and then walk the dogs as well is just too much. It would be five if it was just me.

I sound pretty awful, but this is quite important to me, so I think I’d better try harder. We don’t do some green stuff for price reasons as the moment (milkman and refill are more expensive for example) but have given up a lot too, like meat, non essential driving and holidays, so perhaps that offsets things. I can’t wait to have a budget that fits my values again!

Shampoo & conditioner bars for me. May be great for some people but absolutely useless for me (I do have super thick hair which probably had something to do with it).

RE LEDs and migraines. You can get LEDs that give out a warm light rather than the harsh blue type light. I find these are fine and don’t trigger migraines.

Another cup convert! I’ve used one for 3 years and never looked back. I was at my mum’s the other day and had to use a tampon as came on and forgot to bring my cup out with me (silly as I knew I was due!), it was so chafy and uncomfortable and I couldn’t wait to get it out of me.

Washable pads and period pants I think would be fine to use at the tail end of my period. I don’t think I could bear to use washable toilet paper though! How exactly do you clean it?!

One reusable item I’d love to see invented is washable cat litter, does such a thing exist?

I just couldn't do the reusable loo roll, and yet I did do cloth nappies. I think there would be mutiny and rebellion if I tried to introduce that at home!

I can only imagine the added washing. If it's anything like cloth nappies then you'd need a long, hot wash cycle then the loo paper hanging around to dry ( no tumble drying if we're doing it for eco reasons).