Going Green. Plastic-Free July - Food & Drink - The Easy, the Adaptations and the Struggles
We are a week into Plastic-Free July: a challenge to deplastify your life. I got into it through The Story Of Stuff on Facebook: So here's my first update on how it goes so far. I'll focus in this post on the food and drinks sections. In the Netherlands we do have a special plastic recycle program ( or actually: downcycling ) , so it is very easy to track how much plastic our household collects as we keep it in a separate bin. I divided my experiences in 3 sections. * Easy life change: the why didn't I do this before? ** Needs some adaptation in lifestyle: doable, but takes more planning. *** The struggles: Hm, difficult: How am I going to make this work? * Easy life change - Shop local Preferably I'd be baking biscuits myself any way, because of the sugar. But in events that I will buy cookies, the ones at the bakery come in a paper sachet or I can bring my own container. While supermarket cookies are wrapped in 2 (sometimes even 3!) layers of plas...