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Necessity - tooth brushes

Do we really need brushed? Could we use cloth? At go vita Hyperdome WHICH I AM NOT GETTING SMS FOR BUT I AM GETTING SMS FROM GARDEN CITY :( I think they are $3.60 with 20% off that would be IF THESE ARE ONE OF THE SELECTED ITEMS ON SALE. Flora and forna (THEY DO FREE SHIPPING FOR TOOTH BRUSHES) $3.95 but not charcoal brush, $5.35 - $5.95 for charcoal range. Go vita Hyperdome - I thought I say $3.60 which would be cheaper with 20%off if these are included in monthly sale BUT i think they are no charcoal I could not tell as kids stupid and tags allover shop. try looking online or calling. The olive branch - $3.60 kids soft and i think adult too.

Kids plastic-free straws

Can only find one stainless steel on ebay but they have a ring to stop them coming out of the lid of a cup. Which I guess is ok, would be useless but ok. Flora and Forna have $5 for a 12cm cocktail straw but they are very thick.....which I don't like the feel of in comparison to thin stainless steel. I am yet to try the smaller bamboo straw I have at 20.5cm or the bent thin stainless steel one I got from Apples and Raddishes at 17cm from bottom to the bend. These will probably work fine even in a small breakable cup. Maybe I could test at home giving them a breakable cup and these straws. FYI my other bamboo straw is 22.5cm I never usually need a small straw as the cups are not usually kid size at the cafes but at Drift the other day the milkshake was in a very small glass. Honestly I prob should have taken the lid off and NOT needed to use a straw at all! Great wasted my time looking to buy them when the reason there is none is because you dont need them. Just drink without

Can you recycle sunglasses?

Call recycle centres and ask if they will take them. I was thinking putting phone screen protectors on our sunglass lenses to stop them getting scratched so they never need to be recycled/thrown out unless broken beyond repair. These screen protectors are plastic so that's bad but I think is better than putting many sunglasses into landfill unless they can be recycled then.... I don't know if I would go to the hassle of looking in op shops for protectors, trying to cut out a lens shape and stick it on right if I can just take the few or many scratched and broken sunglasses to the recycle centre. I can stock pile where I stock pile batteries to take to battery world. I think i'd be saving more plastic by not using the screen protectors than using them because hopefully the sunglasses can re recycled where as the screen protectors probably cannot. They are not hard plastic and are not scrunch-able and they are sticky. I would probably try to remove the stickiness and pu