Though I still wash and sort my rubbish, the harsh reality is that less than 9 per cent of it is recycled. You're probably too young to have chanted the little ditties about reduce, reuse, and recycle that the plastics company had us teaching children, to lure them, and us, into believing that plastic wasn't that bad, while behind the scenes they were ramping up their products.

I don't know what the solution is, but we can't give in.

What will I do? You talked about showering...some years ago Canberra where I live was in serious drought and we were given little egg timers to time ourselves in the shower. We learned to take one-minute showers and we still do that.

We buy very few clothes, we waste no food, we try to resist plastic products but that's not always possible, we buy nothing that is imported in terms of food (think air travel, transport etc).

I actually wrote on this myself, 'Spinning The Plastics'.

Here's a Mother Teresa quote that I try to live by. 'We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.'

It's all a litle depressing Kylie, but keep ramping up the rhetoric, and encourage others to follow suit.