We all know that plastic is not very biodegradable, and thus an environmental nightmare, as well as being over-used in many instances. Equally we all know how convenient it can be.
The other day I can across Less Plastic, and their poster of 9 Tips for Living with Less Plastic. Although it’s a couple of years old, I share them here with comments on how well I think we do.
- Bring your own shopping bag. Already do this and have done for some years.
- Carry a reusable water bottle. As we don’t carry water, we can’t do this. Although we could stop buying mineral water in plastic bottles for use at home.
- Bring your own cup. We almost never have take-out coffee etc., so not much point in this.
- Pack your lunch in reusable containers. Again we don’t carry packed lunch, so this isn’t appropriate.
- Say no to disposable straws and cutlery. Yep, always do if we can.
- Skip the plastic produce bags. Difficult if the supermarket offers no alternative to having 29 onions floating loose in your trolley – they can provide paper bags for bread so why not for other produce? Would they like us taking our own paper bags? And then there’s the question of what to use in the freezer.
- Slow down and dine in. We seldom eat out; maybe once or twice a month, on average.
- Store leftovers in glass jars. Yes, could do this although I’m ot sure about finding a good variety of different sized jars with out buying then specially. And anyway we have lots of plastic boxes and wouldn’t it be greener to use them to destruction first?
- Share these tips with your friends. That’s just what I’m doing!
So how well do you do?
