How one family cut out plastic for a month

The Nagle family tried to cut out plastic for a month. Alissa MacMillan finds out how they got on.

THE first lesson Roger Nagle learned when their family went plastic-free was that “Porridge is inedible without raisins.” And raisins mostly come packaged in plastic.

Roger and Angie Nagle of Ballyclough stopped buying plastic for a month, meaning no purchases containing plastic – no coffee cups with plastic lids, no water bottles, no wrapped biscuits. Even worse, no cereals, no pasta, no bagged bread and veg, and no sultanas.