Suddenly plastic waste is the fashionable concern. I should have been obvious all along, and I'm sure there are other environmental issues that are being neglected (but one step at a time I suppose).

I've just had an email from Chippenham festival telling festival-goers and artists to bring their own water bottles and refill them. See blog

On a similar theme our choir has a tea-break, serving a hot drink to 70 members. Also 2 dance clubs, though numbers are 20-40 there. There are rotas for tea-making and one of the dance clubs uses village hall cups which are washed. But washing 70 cups would take some-one out of rehearsal for too long so we use plastic. And I discovered when I looked, paper cups aren't recyclable either and are more expensive. A few people have started bringing their own mugs.