Replacing plastic bottles

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which is great, that they didn't used to do? Carry reusable water bottles.

2:21

That's true.

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Almost everybody carries a bottle.

2:24

And just a few years ago, people bought plastic bottles

2:27

of water all the time.

2:30

Yeah, I remember when I was teaching in a classroom

2:34

and I'd sometimes have students.

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They would come to London from all over the world,

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and every day they would go to a supermarket and buy a plastic bottle.

2:44

And I used to... I used to say sometimes, you know, 'Why? Buy a reusable one.'

2:48

And then you're not using this plastic all the time.

2:51

Yeah. We have a word for that, don't we?

2:54

Single-use plastic.

2:56

Yeah. So we have to try and avoid single-use plastics.

3:00

What about water?

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So water waste.

3:03

I really like having a bath just to relax,

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but sometimes I feel really guilty about it because it's using up

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quite a lot of water.

3:11

Yeah, I prefer showers, which is good because they use less water.

3:16

So, Beth, is there anything that you are planning to do to cut down further

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on the waste that you create?

3:24

I should probably have fewer baths.

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I mean, I maybe have one a week, so... I mean, I shower too, of course.