Time to rethink?
Have you ever counted the number of plastic bottles in your bathroom? GMB’s weather supremo and author of Everyday Ways To Save Our Planet, Laura Tobin, has – and she asked me to the same last Sunday. ‘Go on, count them,’ she instructed. ‘No one needs all those plastic bottles! I don’t have any!’ The number was shamefully close to 100 but I’ve promised her I will buy nothing else until they are all used up and I will replace them with planet-friendly alternative containers. Laura assures me I can even put my moisturiser in a cardboard tube (available in craft shops) and I intend to give it a go. She is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to saving the planet. She says, ‘I know people don’t think one change matters,’ but there…