To Plastic Or Not To Plastic!

For the love of shopping.

Plastic is everywhere it seems and on everyone's lips. Yes, dreadful what we as humanity have done to our planet and sadly are still doing with the moral proviso of;

" If it was so bad, they wouldn't produce and use it "

anything to appease our conscious...

The obvious use of plastic as wrapping of goods is just the tip of the iceberg. Plastic happily resides in all those cheap clothes we are so wont to have every few months, in order not to be thought of as un-hip plus honestly, when a t-shirt costs less than a cup of take away coffee or a packet of cigarettes, there aren't many of us who can withstand the temptation.

In the back of our minds most of us do wonder at such a rock bottom price for something that was manufactured halfway across the world, still had to be shipped here and make a profit for the chain store. Yip, something's rotten in the state of cheap fashion.

Look, most of us are already doing a small bit each and every day in order to stop using so much plastics and that is fantastic. Those hidden plastics such as those in clothing are often forgotten about but should be our next collective project. Buying less cheap fashion and rather investing in good, solid real clothes once every year or so might be the way to go.

Bob and I were reminiscing about the way we were given a good pair of jeans, a nice solid jacket or sweater for our birthdays or at Christmas when we were kids. These clothes were pre-plastics and thus expensive and things to be treasured. I still remember a Scottish patterned skirt I got when I was little and Bob told me about an expensive pair of Pepe jeans he sported for years, as if it was a treasured friend.

Yes, these items carry a bigger ticket price but thus will be looked after much better, they also will last much longer and most importantly, they won't be bathed in harmful chemicals. We have all smelt that awful chemical smell that sticks to cheap jeans. I don't know about you, but I often wondered what toxins were morphing into my skin...

Biggi