Plastiknits

Knitting with carrier bags? Well, if I'm ever short of yarn...

(image from cocoknits tutorial on how to cut up the plastic bag for knitting)

Actually, this might make a cute Guide activity. I'll add it to my list of cool projects. I wonder if there are some good examples on Ravelry.... Answer, yes - of course. The Morehouse ones don't seem to have made it onto Ravelry but their are plenty of results for "plastic bag" and "plastic recycled" most of which are variations on this kind of theme.

No Plastic? Fantastic!

With the title ripped shamelessly from one of the described blogs :)

I picked up a couple of blogs from a university mailout today. Subtext is an independent university email which I occasionally stretch to reading all of. Somewhere at the bottom of this last one (that link currently sends you to 34 but I assume 43 will be uploaded shortly) were links to the blogs of two students, Rose and Ele, who had been pursuing life without any plastic. I've come across this idea before somewhere and I do think it's a great one, just a shame it's so hard to do at the moment. Whilst I'm not quite sure I'm adventurous enough to take this challenge on myself it does prompt some thought as to how much more effort I *could* be putting in to these things. I know that as time passes we all get better at reducing, reusing and recycling and yet I also know that there's far too much stuff that gets taken and binned just because not doing so is a little bit more thought or work. (That said, I'm still not sure on the whole Mooncup thing - maybe I'll ask Becky one day :))

Also, I think I know Rose (which is what drove me to look at the blog in the first place).