This Plastic Free July is the time to say no to single use plastics, to shop to minimise the plastic waste you create and to support recycling and recycled plastic products. The thing about single-use plastic is that we forget about it. We use it once and then we put it in the bin (recycling or otherwise) and forget it ever existed, but that plastic will continue to exist for hundreds of years. All the plastic that has ever been made, that you have ever touched or seen or used, is still in existence somewhere on this planet and, sometimes, this is in the ocean. Even properly disposed of, waste is being blown or washed into waterways. And the target of the 2017 is The Straw. It all started with the 5p charge for single use plastic bags two years ago and has saved billions of plastic bags from being used and wasted. More than £29 million has also been donated to good causes as a result of the charge (data can be seen by clicking here ). This was followed last year, by t...