Ecover :(

A while ago I filled in a little form on a website:

I was disappointed to find that Ecover dishwasher tablets are individually plastic-wrapped. I have no local facility to recycle these wrappings. It also appears that Ecover do not sell a dishwashing liquid nor loose powder. Can I mail my little plastic packets back to Ecover for recycling?

Thanks,

Today I received a response:

Thank you for your email. Whilst the PP wrappers are 100% recyclable, unfortunately no local councils to my knowledge, will accept this type of plastic for recycling at present. There are companies that recycle this type of plastic but they will only do so for huge quantities. We need to use a PP wrapper to keep moisture away from the tablets and we are looking at alternative packaging methods that would solve this recycling problem. Unfortunately we do not have the facilities to store plastic that customer send back as we only have a small office in the UK. I’m sorry to have to disappoint you.

Kind regards

So the stuff is recyclable but that makes not a blind bit of difference - it has to go into landfill. Phooey.

(In other news, it is once again Too Darn Hot, and we have a stack of stuff outside the door as well as listed on Freecycle; it WILL go into landfill if it's still here on Wednesday night and I feel terribly, terribly guilty about it. Why the hell do we have so much stuff? Most of it we didn't even buy ourselves!)

Too Darn Hot

Today Linnea emptied the washing machine of damp, clean laundry, and filled it with dirty towels from a pile on the floor. Then she put the powder I measured into the drawer, closed it, and pushed the "on" button.

She also tidied all her Lego up, and most of the playing cards.

And played Highly Important and Very Secretive games upstairs in her room, which stopped whenever I came near.

The, we had lunch a little early, and we both went to bed for a nap. Linnea got up because she'd rather nap while she's AWAKE and PLAYING but when sufficiently ignored she ended up falling asleep in her doorway with her feet through the bars of her safety gate. I napped too. This is good; I need about 10 hours sleep in 24 now, I think.

We have some Freecycle stuff out on the footpath; a man rang the bell earlier to ask for a carrier bag to take some of it away.

We ate breakfast outside; it's so hot again now that we can't really go out during the day (I went out briefly to hang laundry) so we're trying to at least eat breakfast and dinner outside so we get out sometime.

And I have managed to utterly, utterly miscount and fail to add up. My section is on 15 August, which isn't at 38 weeks, it's at 39, given my due date is 22 August, and isn't less than four weeks away at all. How on earth did I manage to miss that? Mind you, so did everyone else. Can anyone tell me how long I have to go? I'm clearly too pregnant to think.