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Accept Your Missteps
Reducing your use of plastic is a huge task, and you’re not always going to get it right.
Sometimes there simply aren’t no-plastic options, but that doesn’t mean you should give up or beat yourself up.
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When You Can’t Reduce, Reuse
Accept there are times when you can’t avoid plastic. Instead, scan your life and ask: "How can I reuse this?”
- Buy in bulk and use plastic containers again (big yogurt containers for example)
- Try to make single-use plastic reusable
- Collect boxes and use th...
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Understand What’s Possible
It’s a matter of reducing where you can and reusing the plastic you can’t avoid. Because absolute zero-waste is actually not possible.
You have to think of how exactly do you stop using it. So you first have to understand what’s truly feasible.
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Think About Your Why
It’s important to nail down why you want to go plastic-free. Having a strong, defined sense of purpose will help you stay the course when things inevitably get tough and inconvenient.
The most common "why" of a plastic-free lifestyle is a sense of responsibility to help both t...
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Start with Your Beverages
Perhaps the best place for people to start cutting out plastic is in your drinking habits:
- Carry along a travel mug for your coffee
- Invest in a reusable water bottle
- Buy a few metal or glass ones to carry in your bag.
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Cut Out the Worst Offenders
Avoid the worst contaminating plastics, like [polyethylene food wrap] and BPA plastics. Don’t use the straw, don't buy the plastic toy, or take the plastic bag.
Start focusing on the other easy changes you can make—such as carrying your own shopping bags to the grocery store and cutt...
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Someone will always tell you you’re doing it wrong
There are almost always many different approaches to a particular problem, with no single “right way.” A lot of programmers get very good at advocating for their preferred way, but that doesn’t mean it’s the One True Path.
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