Plastic detox: deplastify your life

We were thinking of different post ideas and came up with the quick and short way of getting the message out there. Let this plastic detox be the first!

It is the second week of plastic-free July. And more plastic has found its way to homes, forests and waterways. We are literally drowning in plastic. Wish the nature could plastic detox itself, but unfortunately that is not possible. As of 2018, approximately 380 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide each year. Our planet can’t cope with this amount of plastic polluting the environment, and calls to reduce plastic pollution and consumption have increased in urgency in recent years. Seems like plastic is here to stay!

Unless we can’t find other and cheaper ways how to create plastic like materials, which would have the same properties, then plastic detox in the world will never happen. Even if we avoid it, more will come. Plastic has a sneaky way of entering our homes. So plastic-free July is the best time try to do some plastic detox.

Take a look of this great graph we found online created by Learning Fundamentals.

If this is no news for you, well done! You are already doing your part. Keep going.

If this is all new for you, then happy exploring. Please do not forget to let us know how what was the most interesting thing you learned?

Have you tried to shop plastic-free for a day or a week? How did you do?

Go on a plastic detox and share what is it you find easy and what hard.

*Article photo is taken by Marc Newberry. It is a chewing gum wall in Seattle. It will be there for many generations. Unfortunately.