Developing an environmental conscience 2
As I said in an earlier post , I have been looking more closely at our footprint on the earth as I have been thinking about what sort of world I would like to leave for Baby and his descendants (if he decides to have any). Recently I have been looking at how to reuse things in the kitchen so as to minimise waste. We buy a lot of things online and consequently have a lot of cardboard boxes. We recycle these via our local recycling scheme but we also reuse some of these for e.g. storage in the loft. Recently I have started to make cat activities out of cardboard containers for our cat, a bit like the one described here . Mine don't look anything as fancy but basically my imagination is my limit and the cat will never run out of new toys. I have also been steadily ridding the family of disposable sandwich bags, cling film, etc. We do take lunch to school/work so we have switched to using reusable things. These beeswax wraps are fabulous, and we use...