Off Message: Nadine O'Regan's growing eco-guilt
The availability of cheap products, from festival tents to Penneys clothes, has contributed to a throwaway culture that is ruining our planet. It’s time to stop making plastic promises and take action
I can’t stop seeing plastic bottles. They’re everywhere: by my desk, in my car, tucked onto windowsills and jutting from my rubbish bin. I got home from the All Together Now festival last Sunday and took six of them out of my rucksack. Six! What on earth was I doing with six plastic bottles? They had just quietly accumulated when I wasn’t looking, like ants on a patch of earth covered in spilt ...