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BradfordLass72 Sat 16-Nov-19 06:05:26

Well if we weren't so silly about plastic, we would not now need to further deplete the rain forests and indeed ALL forests to make the m assive amount of paper bags, packaging and other stuff.

I was a guest at a huge dinner not so long ago and the 'cutlery' was stiffened paper. It may have worked for a piece of cake but for a mixed roast meats lunch it did not.

Now our landfills are stuffed full of paper bags we can't recycle (at least the ones I get simply tear as they are being unpacked)
No one seems to be collectng them to re-pulp.

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tanith Sat 16-Nov-19 06:05:14

I only have a small suburban garden with

a cherry
a laburnum
3 conifers

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BBbevan Sat 16-Nov-19 06:02:15

We have.
3 apple
1 pear
1 fig
1 olive
An enormous oak
1 tulip tree
I willow
I very large Acer.
1 laburnum
2 holly
1 Indian bean tree
And several large camellias

We are going to move the pear to a more sensible place soon. I think we have no room for any more

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grannyactivist Sat 16-Nov-19 03:34:07

.........do you have in your garden?

This is the Centenary Year of Forestry England - and from the aborted sell off the conservatives planned just a few years ago, they have now decided that we need millions more trees.

If every household planted two trees, this is still only about 3% of the total number of trees the Woodland Trust estimates the UK needs to plant by 2050 in order to reach net zero emissions - 1.5 billion. So, if you have a garden and/or allotment, how many trees do you have - and are you planning to plant any (more)?

We have 10 trees:
1 birch
1 rowan
1 fig
2 plum
2 pear
1 cherry
2 apples

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