Avoiding Plastic
@avoidingplastic
Tips on ways to avoid and reduce using the plastics killing our bodies and our planet.
Is your taco seasoning mix package made of paper or plastic? Choose wisely.
Appreciate Costco having plastic-free battery packaging now. (These are paper boxes with images of batteries on them.)
Grove.co offers "The Unplastic Shop" - more of this everywhere, please!
If you have a means to buy fresh milk in glass bottles, please do it. In New York the deposit is $3, which you get back when returning the bottle. No waste — plastic or otherwise
Appreciate L’Oreal Paris promoting refills to reduce plastic waste! (We just wish the refills came in plastic free packaging too.)
How long has this product been in cardboard cartons instead of plastic bottles?
GaeaStar is a California startup with an attractive new approach to plastic-free products and packaging, using ultrathin ceramics. www.gaeastar.com
This is so welcome. Costco made Rao’s change their two-pack holders to paper from plastic
Progress: Chobani Coffee Creamer’s new container at Costco is mostly paper instead of the previous plastic one. (And comes in four flavors.)
Most granola is in plastic pouches these days. Choose one in as much paper packaging as possible (if you’re not making your own, that is).
Thrilled that Procter & Gamble is offering plastic-bottle-free laundry detergent: Tide Evo.
These toothpaste “bits” from Bite are an ingenious way to eliminate plastic from your oral hygiene routine. bitetoothpastebits.com
One of the few laundry detergent refills in paper packaging. Restock Clean Cult while you can — they are disappearing from many stores sadly. (They are currently on sale now at Amazon.)
Another option for plastic-free laundry detergent. (Available at Whole Foods.)
Costco currently has both Blueland dishwasher tablets AND toilet cleaner tablets -- both about the half the price per tablet than anywhere else. It's probably a good idea to support this attempt by Costco to offer plastic-free products.
Micro Ingredients™ offers melatonin refills as well. Combine with your best amber glass medicine bottle for a less-plastic solution to buying melatonin. (If we ever find a company offering refills in compostable or paper pouches, we'll post those as well.)
We're getting closer, people. Micro Ingredients™ offers supplements in these refill packages which use much less plastic than bottles. Combine with your favorite refillable glass bottles. (We're still on the lookout for paper packaging for these kinds of refills.)Mi
Glad you found a way to keep that out of a landfill! Also consider switching to this brand of gum in a paper container to reduce plastic waste even more: