Are single-use plastic red noses becoming old fashioned?
Perhaps it’s time for the classic red nose that is a symbol of Comic Relief to change with the times, especially when the noses are simply thrown away after the charity day.
According to the Market researcher GlobalWebIndex, since David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet‘ highlighted the damage to our oceans of single-use plastics, 53 percent of participants in the UK have reduced their use of disposable plastic in the last year.
A few primary schools joined the movement this year by banning Comic Relief red noses, and opted for painting their face instead.
As well as the damage to the environment to the noses that are sold, what’s even more concerning is the amount that are simply thrown away. Today a resident in Brighton spotted a bin full of plastic noses, in plastic packaging, outside the Sainsbury’s near Preston Park and said:
Steffi Lucas
And this my friends is why I refuse to buy my children a red nose!!
An entire bin full of them in Sainsbury’s Preston park !
Infuriating! Landfill! Waste!
© Steffi Lucas
