On the plastic front – if your council won’t recycle the tubs, how about doing it yourself? Storing things in the shed, childrens jigsaws, toys, pens, your local school and playgroup would be really grateful to recieve things like this to re-use as storage or for craft use!

I’ve read that optical brighteners are toxic to fish (but not to us although some people can get rashes) but I’ll investigate whether that’s what’s in this as it says all its ingredients are biodegradable and the research I’ve done says this usually means they’re aren’t brighteners present. I’ll do a bit more digging about this and see. About the tub, that’s the biggest downside of the product I think, although my council takes all plastic, whether it recycles it or not isn’t clear.