Plastic-free July is a good chance to clean up your act a little in a way that is long enough to be habit forming, but short enough as to not feel overwhelming. The basic "getting started" steps...
Plastic-free July is a good chance to clean up your act a little in a way that is long enough to be habit forming, but short enough as to not feel overwhelming.
The basic "getting started" steps are:
Coffee Cups
Fruit and Vegetables
Plastic Shopping Bags
Plastic Straws
Plastic Water Bottles
At the Bakery
Meat, Fish & Deli
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
I'm pretty far along at reducing my waste, so most of these are taken care of for me, but I'm going to work on:
-baked items (I have a breadmaker but need to be more scheduled and proactive with it)
-coffee & coffee cream (I need to set up a recurring delivery for cream I think, and we need to buy coffee in bulk)
-reduce canned pop consumption (too much coke zero - this just creates too much recycling.)
-soaking and cooking dried beans and pulses instead of buying canned (I've never done it!)
I'm also going to just try to do a no-buy july, because it will help greatly with the waste produced to start with, and we also got back from visiting some family on the East Coast so I'm broke anyways! It will also prevent me from doing a thing I'm prone to where I buy "eco-friendly" things I don't actually need, just because I love shopping.
Lately I've been avoiding or reusing the plastic shopping bags as much as possible. Today my favorite store worker put my ice cream into paper bags. In our home we recycle as much plastic as we...
Lately I've been avoiding or reusing the plastic shopping bags as much as possible. Today my favorite store worker put my ice cream into paper bags. In our home we recycle as much plastic as we can. Around here there aren't many options for replacing plastic when shopping. Being more of a minimalist helps.
Plastic-free July is a good chance to clean up your act a little in a way that is long enough to be habit forming, but short enough as to not feel overwhelming.
The basic "getting started" steps are:
I'm pretty far along at reducing my waste, so most of these are taken care of for me, but I'm going to work on:
-baked items (I have a breadmaker but need to be more scheduled and proactive with it)
-coffee & coffee cream (I need to set up a recurring delivery for cream I think, and we need to buy coffee in bulk)
-reduce canned pop consumption (too much coke zero - this just creates too much recycling.)
-soaking and cooking dried beans and pulses instead of buying canned (I've never done it!)
I'm also going to just try to do a no-buy july, because it will help greatly with the waste produced to start with, and we also got back from visiting some family on the East Coast so I'm broke anyways! It will also prevent me from doing a thing I'm prone to where I buy "eco-friendly" things I don't actually need, just because I love shopping.
Lately I've been avoiding or reusing the plastic shopping bags as much as possible. Today my favorite store worker put my ice cream into paper bags. In our home we recycle as much plastic as we can. Around here there aren't many options for replacing plastic when shopping. Being more of a minimalist helps.