Happy New Year to you! Do you want to make a change and start using less plastic in your life? Here are some great ideas with real impact to get you started:
- Switch to buying unpackaged fruit and vegetables – find your local farm shop
- Switch to paper or reusable fabric produce bags at the shops
- Switch to stainless steel tins or glass jars for food storage
- Switch to a stainless steel water bottle and take it with you wherever you go
- Switch to soap and shampoo bars to avoid plastic bottles
- Switch to bamboo toothbrushes and try out a simple toothpaste recipe
- Switch to cosmetics and bathroom products without microbeads
- Switch to washing powder in cardboard boxes
- Switch to milk in glass bottles delivered to your door
- Switch from tea bags to tea leaves – most tea bags contain plastic
- For a bonus point watch the new film ‘A Plastic Ocean’ available on iTunes and share it with your families and friends
See my blog posts for resources, research, how-to-make-things, where to shop and more. I’m looking forward to sharing more this year as I get better at living without plastic.
Hi Claudi. Stainless steel water bottle = check! Glass containers for good storage = getting closer! Beginning to loathe plastic containers. Tea leaves I will start considering when I run out of earl grey and green tea. Also I will just drink less tea and more water. I refill washing up and laundry soap at Stroud Valleys project in town. I will try and download plastic ocean and watch it with others. Aim to do this by end of March. I don’t use cosmetics except Dr hauschka rose cream – does that have micro beads. I use own shopping bags already. I’m about 50% good on your list. Toothbrush is electric do won’t do bamboo. Where do I get shampoo bars?
Fantastic Katie! I love it. Happy New Year.
I would recommend AKÖMA Skin Care Black Soap, good as shampoo bars and general soap bar for all the family; in our case from 1year old to 40! In my opinion; fantastic.