Though I'm unsure why the month of July was chosen, I do know that Plastic Free July is an initiative started in Perth, Western Australia that challenges people to go a
month without plastic – either by seeking alternatives for a few key items or
going cold turkey on everything packaged. Though I haven’t posted any updates
for a couple of months (oops), my own efforts to keep my plastic consumption
down have ebbed and flowed with varying degrees of success over 2013. My usage
of single or short-term use plastic is way down but I have fallen afoul of
hidden packaging on a couple of occasions (namely with appliances, most companies
use very little plastic in their packaging these days but you still get the odd
anomaly). While I’ve been making decent inroads, it’s probably
a good time to try and kick start some new habits for the areas I still haven’t
tackled yet. So I’m going to try and go completely plastic-free for the month, and
will post a tally of any plastic I do accumulate, plus tips on what I use in an
average day and how I found a replacement for it.
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