Today there are many ways to do without plastic packaging, especially those for single use. Adopt a gourd, make household products, swap the cling film against other solutions or use fabric bags: so many simple gestures to significantly reduce its consumption of plastic.
Recycling has progressed in recent decades, but reducing our daily plastic consumption remains essential to preserve the ecosystem of the planet. Many domestic waste can be avoided by adopting new habits. This is evidenced by these 10 proposals.
Buy a gourd
Abandoning plastic water bottles in favor of a gourd is one of the simplest gestures to adopt. Chosen in stainless steel or glass, the gourd limits the purchase of disposable bottles and no longer ingest plastic microparticles.
Avoid vacuum meals
On the same principle, it is good to invest in an airtight box to transport your lunch at your workplace. Meals sold in convenience stores are often under vacuum and accompanied by plastic cutlery which inexorably end up in the trash. However, this proposal requires cooking in larger quantities in the evening.
Choose the right conservation boxes
Even if the PVC conservation boxes are reusable, they always end up becoming plastic waste. However, it is enough to invest in glass models, just as hermetic and more resistant, to soften its ecological impact.
Building on loose foods
Food packaging represents almost 45% of plastic waste in France. And even if it is not easy to abandon all the food sold under vacuum, it is possible to reduce them by turning to the bulk. Dry foods such as cereals, nuts, but also certain liquids such as milk or fruit juice, are increasingly easy to find in bulk shops. Just provide glass bottles and jars to recover what you need without generating new packaging. The meats, the cheeses can be bought from cutting and slipped into hermetic boxes rather than vacuum buying.
Make your own household products
Going to “homemade” cleaners is a good way to register in a plastic reduction process. Household products are sold in bulky plastic containers, have often specific use and generate chemical pollution by their composition. Unlike white vinegar and baking soda, which allow the whole house to be maintained with few elements. Same observation for laundry, which can be easily made with Marseille soap, soda crystals and a few drops of essential oil.
Adopt fabric bags
A simple gesture that avoids plastic bags in the checkout: keep one or more tote bags on yourself. Most food stores no longer provide bags for free, but they remain widespread in clothing brands and represent a real scourge. We can also avoid traditional containers for fruits and vegetables by taking nets as soon as we go to do a few shopping.
Forget the cling film
It is also possible to control its plastic consumption by swapping the cling film against conservation boxes, or washable fabric packaging. The latter are generally in the form of fabric charlottes or pieces of bee wax coated fabric, called “bee wrap”. These alternatives make it possible to cover the remains in the same way as the cling film, but have the advantage of being reusable.
Straw
Small pleasure that can cost the planet big, plastic straw is now strictly prohibited. If you really can’t do without it, then opt for a reusable stainless steel model, for example.
Prefer the lighters matches
Made from plastic, disposable lighters represent a significant source of pollution. It is better to prefer rechargeable metal models or good old matches that will diffuse a sweet smell of suffering in the house.
Limit frozen frozen
To question its consumption of plastic is also to rethink certain lifestyle. For example, it is advisable to freeze food yourself for the next few months to avoid frozen frozen, always sold in disposable packaging.
