DIVA’S GUIDE TO GIVING A TOSS (WHILE TOSSING OFF) WORDS DANIELLE MUSTARDE

Eco-friendly. Sustainable. Reusable. While across the globe we’re faced with the reality of climate change, buzzwords like these can be found everywhere.

As many of us already know, one of the simplest ways we can each do our bit is to make small but immediate changes, such as choosing products which are long-lasting, shopping second-hand and, where possible, avoiding single-use plastics.

There’s one place, however, where many of us – perhaps particularly in the LGBTQI community – hoard a potential mass of plastics in bold, bright (and au natural) colours – our sex toy collections.

Don’t worry dildo-devotees, lube-lovers and anal bead-aficionados. We’re not suggesting you shun the sex toys completely. Instead, we chat to those in the know to suss out how to give a toss while tossing off…

RABBIT AMNESTY

Since its creation in 2017, more than 60,000 sex toys have been recycled under Lovehoney’s Rabbit Amnesty.

The UK’s biggest sex toy retailer created “the world’s most successful sex toy recycling scheme” in a bid to save customers putting their sex toys out in their recycling bins for all to see or, alternatively, taking them down to the local recycling plant.