November is get-rid-of-the-plastic-shit month for me, I’m upping my plastic-free game at home so I thought I’d share some ideas (mainly kitchen and bathroom!)
I’m taking a break until 25th, so to keep it brief I’ve posted the details on the brands and products, including the price tags, just now, on Instagram at @BeautyShortlist
Note the tea strainer…did you know teabags can be a huge culprit? Organic loose leaf tea all the way 🙌🏼☕️
See Instagram for the shocking statistics (the plastic nanoparticles from teabags leech into our bodies too, urgh).
So, Happy Plastic-Reducing November.
I’d love hear how you’re getting all the plastic crap out your life and home, or better still maybe you’re already *totally plastic-free*?
Leave a comment or any good ideas we could all use on Instagram! Thank you x
So important!! We (humans) consume 1.5 million bottles of water per minute. Can’t even comprehend a number that big. And less than 15% are recycled properly. 😥
Thanks for this great post on the problem of too much plastic in our world (at home and globally). Did you know that there are more than 8,000 Empire State Building full of used plastic in the world? Most of this plastic is sitting in landfills and floating in oceans and a tiny percentage is actually recycled. To tackle this problem, policy makers have been educating consumers to recycle more – so the burden and guilt was squarely placed on the consumer. If the policy makers imposed a 20% – 50% content of PCR (Post consumer recycled plastic) in any packaging businesses produced, the landfills and the oceans would be less congested with plastic. We are aware that using PCR plastic is not a full solution as plastic can be recycled only a few times. Aluminium isn’t an option for our products (www.skindiligent.com) and glass has its issues too (high CO2, expensive and fragile to ship, not ideal in showers, etc). I doubt we will ever become a plastic free planet (there is plastic in our cars, in our hip replacements, heart valves, clothing, etc), but I do believe we can change how we interact with plastic. We need policy makers to either add a tax or impose on businesses to use PCR plastic. The value/cost of plastic needs to go up and so will its value to recycle. A higher price of plastic can have the power to be used and recycled more responsibly. It’s too easy to vilify plastic in order to be associated with ‘green’, but this is simply greenwashing in my view.