Oh for God's sake:
I am giving up plastic for the whole of August.
By this I mean not buying or accepting anything which contains plastic or is packaged in plastic.
Why not just go and live in a mud hut somewhere in the middle of nowhere? Progress is just so immoral, isn't it?
We pay our licence fee for this sort of nonsense.
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