Nominate your most environmentally unfriendly product here!

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Very badly phrased but yKWIM

Back in a mo with mine ...

yeh snap gertie, and i like their yogurt too!
will do so also...you never know!

Try these, Washeraurus - you don't need to chuck out the whole toothbrush

Thanks for the link, I use a battery one that I just change the head on. I just think toothbrushes generally are over packaged

THose leaf blowing things that merely move the leaves from one place to another. I can't understand why they don't use a leaf vacuum type thing instead - would save them blowing the same bit of driveway, moving the same old leaves again every day of the Autumn.

Bundle, I use monthly disposables, find them much more comfortable than gas permeable. You need a lot fewer "products" and chemicals than you do with the permanent lenses.

But do I win half a green point cos I only dispose of them after about 4-6 months?

quick hijack:

JARM I didn't hear that you were pg, congrats! got so caught up in myself said to dh 'JARM is pregnant!!!!' he just looked confused!!!!

Too many things are over packaged. Those expensive biscuits that come in 2 plastic trays each wrapped separately inside a box really bug me.

Just thought I'd make a little contribution:
Mr Kipling little cakes (like the country slices) are now individually packed inside their cardboard and aswell as their platic trays!! So, that's twice as much plastic as before, think it's meant to be for lunch boxes or something, but isn't mentioned on the box!

Aswell as the obvious one's already mentioned: disp nappies (have to admit to using them on my newborn for now), nappy sacks (why cant you use the degradable ones?), Binbags (again, there are degradable ones people!)

As for the cucumber packaging I totally agree, in fact there was a woman on the TV (can't remember what program) who would unwrap all unecessary packaging at the till and leave it in the store for them to see how much there was that was going to waste! (Not sure if she did this every time she went shopping though, would be funny!)

Sorry to be a bit tardy with this but felt I had to add these

Chocolate fountains - totally unecessary, especially when someone I know bought her children one each so they didn't have to share

Umbrella bags (plastic bag to put your umbrella in when you go into a shop to stop drips)

By the way, have you got the same mum as me, jacobandlysette? Mine is the same about cucumber peel, and tooks ages to be convinced that it wasn't really hard to leave the peel on my bit because I like the peel.

Also, I think it's changed now but I understand that smoke detectors used to made by one little component being made in China, shipped to the UK for the next bit, shipped back to China for something else, back to the UK... There was about 6 or 8 to-ings and fro-ings before the finished product was assembled and boxed ready for sale.