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No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference – the #2minutesolution Paperback – 3 May 2018

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Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.

Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.

'I read this book yesterday and I've done three things today and that is testament to Martin's brilliant vision and ideas. Now it's your turn!' Chris Packham

'Once, plastic was the miracle material. Now it's the monster. We all need to cut down our plastic consumption and join Martin's #2minutesolution anti-plastic movement. I'm in.' Julia Bradbury

Open this book with your children, give it to your friends. Share your #2minutesolution on twitter and instagram and inspire others.

Martin Dorey, anti-plastics expert, has been working to save our beaches from plastic for the past 10 years. His Beach Clean Foundation and global call to arms #2minutebeachclean has been taken up by people all over the world, and has proven that collective small actions can add up to a big difference.

Together we can fix this.

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Have you got 2 minutes? Join the No More Plastic revolution.

The ocean is in trouble. We must clean it up and stop plastic at the source. And we can do it by sparing just 2 minutes. The 2minutesolution is a simple, effective way for us all to easily cut down on our plastic use. Read this book and discover the small changes you can make now that will add up to make a big difference. When we all chip in, it really does make a difference.

About Martin Dorey

Martin Dorey is a a writer, surfer, beach lover and founder of the international anti-plastic movement, the 2minutebeachclean. He is the expert when it comes to understanding the impact plastics have on our planet. He launched 2minutebeachclean nearly 10 years ago after North Atlantic storms left UK beaches littered with plastic rubbish. It’s a simple, effective idea - pick up beach litter for 2 minutes, bag it, tag it, bin it - and the hashtag has been used thousands of times around the world. No. More. Plastic. continues the clean-up beyond our beaches with the 2minutesolution for everyone.

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I read this book yesterday and I've done three things today and that is testament to Martin's brilliant vision and ideas. Now it's your turn!

-- Chris Packham

Once, plastic was the miracle material. Now it's the monster. We all need to cut down our plastic consumption and join Martin's #2minutesolution anti-plastic movement. I'm in. -- Julia Bradbury

I find Dorey's two-minute solution genius -- Lucy Dunn ― The Pool

Hot on the heels of the socially ground-breaking #2minutebeachclean... simple, smart and effective #2minutesolutions to inspire us... ― Coast magazine

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Martin Dorey, anti-plastics expert, has been working to save our beaches from plastic for the past 10 years. His Beach Clean Foundation and global call to arms #2minutebeachclean has been taken up by people all over the world, and has proven that collective small actions can add up to a big difference.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ebury Press; 1st edition (3 May 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1785039873
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1785039874
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 1.2 x 17.8 cm

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Hello. I am a writer, camper, surfer, cyclist and environmental campaigner.

I am also someone who loves books, partly because books mean adventures. Writing my books, the Take The Slow Road series, The Camper Van Cookbook, The Camper Van Coast and The Camper Van Bible, has taken me to all kinds of brilliant and interesting places because it's all about getting out and doing stuff. It even got me on TV with my BBC 2 series 'One Man and his Campervan'.

I hope my books will inspire you. There is nothing like jumping off a waterfall into a deep, dark pool or cooking great food in the great out doors. In the between times we may have to work, pick up the kids or sit through another day at the office but it will never stop us planning and dreaming. And that's what my books are all about.

I believe in a simple ethos of 'leaving it nicer', which means that I try to clear up wherever I go. It was this thought that led me to found the 2 Minute Foundation, a charity devoted to cleaning up the planet two minutes at a time. My environmental work led me to write 'No. More. Plastic.', a book about changing the world through small actions. I loved writing it. I also loved starting the Kids Fight series, with Kids Fight Plastic, Kids Fight Climate Change and Kids Fight Extinction.

I live in Bude, Cornwall, in a little house by the sea with Dr Lizzy, a gardener and botanist. My kids Maggie and Charlie are at Uni studying to be very cool girls indeed. I work from the spare room where I write about plastic, beach cleaning, VW's, camping, food, fun and simple pleasures. I am a judge for The Caravan and Motorhome Club's Motorcaravan design awards and also appeared in their epic TV show 'Carvannner of the Year'. Great gig.

I write a regular column in Coast Magazine.

I am also a trained Barista, a qualified RNLI Beach Lifeguard, a PADI Drysuit Diver and hold a current Cycling Proficiency Badge (from 1978).

I love tea.

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bridget

Very informative

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Easy for children to understand

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TripFiction

2 minutes is all it takes.....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 June 2018

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When a whale lies convulsing on a Thai shore (early June 2018) and dies because in its digestion system there are more than 80+ plastic bags, then one really does have to start to think about what we humans are doing to the planet. And most of us I am sure have seen Blue Planet 2…

As this concise little books says “We need to free ourselves from the tyranny of convenience”

This is a small, punchy book aimed at people who perhaps want to start to take responsibility for their own plastic consumption in a more measured and thoughtful way. Plastic is everywhere, hardly any of it, in truth, is recyclable. The author helpfully gives manufacturer’s ratings and how to identify what can and can’t be recycled but you would probably need to take the book and its table with you to really understand the issues at hand.

Some schools in the UK, says the author, use plastic cutlery and plates for lunch. Honestly, why would you do that? Who could possibly suggest that that is a good way to encourage a healthy way of eating in children? Where’s the pleasure? Snapped forks with prongs missing, bendy plates – these are functional tools, but do not make for a pleasurable eating experience (positive eating messsages with growing obesity issues are surely important?). More to the point, it’s all bad for the environment. Plastic water bottles are a no-no…. there is no need, as there are so many places to refill your portable bottles. Straws will outlive you. According to the #2minutebeachclean app 4.25% of beach litter is straws and plastic cutlery.

The author encourages you to take a look around a typical supermarket, why plastic wrap cucumbers or oranges? They have ready made skins for protection. He suggests taking recyclable containers to counters at your local supermarket to buy loose produce is one way forward.

Clothes, with synthetic fibres, shed at the drop of a hat, wet wipes have plastic components and will last and last, nappies and plastic tampon applicators will all be around for years and years to come. Tea bags? Ever wondered why they never really compost down? That’s because the bags contain plastic!

This book just touches on the problems of plastic waste but addressing the problem of plastic (we’ve all seen David Attenborough wading through ocean plastic) surely has to be high up the list. There are facts and statistics galore in the book which make for sobering reading. Why can’t we have bottle deposit schemes?

My best find of late are little re-usable drawstring bags which I take to the greengrocer - that saves on the plastic or paper bags that are readily supplied. And don’t believe that paper bags are any better than plastic, the pollution caused by hauling them round the country is significant. We are definitely on borrowed time.

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Well-meaning but not much useful content

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This is obviously a very well-intentioned and enthusiastic book, but I was disappointed because the content was so sketchy. It would have been nice to have recommended brands of fruits are cotton buds and tampons so that the authors suggestions could be taken forward. Quite a lot of it is common sense – obviously, endless plastic bags, disposable bottles and cups, and black plastic trays for fruit are just a waste of everything, including money, but the problem is that like for like alternatives are not always available; for example, the fruit sold loose in supermarkets is almost always of worse quality than the fruit sold in plastic.

Similarly, all of us understand that a reusable flannel can be substituted for wipes, providing you are willing to wash the flannel often; they get revoltingly stinky very quickly. In the same way, I doubt that many of us would feel comfortable carting around a used knife and fork all day, and not everyone has appropriate washing facilities at work. We all know that disposable nappies are not ideal in any respect, but washable nappies use up huge amounts of water and energy because they require frequent cleaning. Moreover, virtually all the suggested substitutes are either more expensive or massively more time-consuming than the original problem plastic.

And what of the environmental impact of the alternatives suggested? If everybody stops using wipes and starts wiping themselves or their babies with cotton-wool, does that mean that cotton crops will start springing up in areas that are now rainforest? This is exactly what happened when trans-fats were demonised as the cause of heart disease, and were replaced by palm oil.

Given the low level the book is aimed at, I was surprised that there was less about why it might be important to take your rubbish home, rather than leaving it in the park where you picnicked, or tossing it out of your car as you drive away. It would also be useful if the author campaigned for recycling bins in public parks and beauty spots, including beaches, to discourage people from simply hurling their bottles away from them.

This points to the general problem with the book which is that it would really be better for governments to take action to ban disposable wipes, plastic water bottles, plastic soft drink bottles, and plastic carrier bags, along with other single-use plastics, while local councils could provide better recycling bins at sites where rubbish accumulates now. This is not a problem that individuals can completely solve. Like most of us, I'm more than willing to modify my practices, but I wonder if there might be more helpful books than this one in advising me how to do so.

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Ecowitch

I only found about a quarter of it actually useful but then that's because I already do a lot ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 June 2018

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I must say I was rather impressed by this book. Okay, I only found about a quarter of it actually useful but then that's because I already do a lot of what is suggested to try and reduce my plastic use (I am an ecologist after all) but I did find the style of writing not only easy to read but perfectly balanced between getting the importance of the points across without being preachy. I liked how Dorey breaks each chapter down to the facts, then the hows and then the mini action/check list, making it ever so easy to get away from plastic. More importantly, Dorey acknowledges that some plastic avoidance is hard and will take time to achieve and needs businesses to get involved too but he also doesn't use this as a get out clause and gives alternative options to handle the issue in the meantime. I also rather liked the kids chapter, which was written for and at children, not for adults to tell children about, which makes for a pleasant change and a great way to get them involved.

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