Last week I did an experiment by CUTTING OFF PLASTIC. You can find see how it went here: https://steemit.com/life/@purplemoon/plastic-free-week-a-challenge If in the first week, I just got 3 items of plastic (3 stickers from the mangoes, the gas bottle lid and some bindis for my kid), this week was more challenging.
This week I got a total of 6 items of plastic (a straw, a single plate, a reusable bag, a super-glue, an disinfecting alcohol bottle, a 3cm plastic tape). So here is the story:
On a daily basis, the fruits and veggies I manage to buy without a wrap. I just get them fresh from the market in my own bags, so no plastic bag is involved at all! :) Very happy for this achievement! All the grains I get them bulk also - there is a sufi shop (sufi like the mystic islam religion, that's right) that sells grains here and you can bring your own cointeiners. So whn the shop opened I was the happiest in the world. No more plastic rice, plastic pasta, plastic lentils, etc. I can really reduce now!
BUT there are the other things, which are I guess almost impossible to get without being wrapped in plastic! I need alcohol for disinfection. It is a need for my work. So this comes in a plastic bottle...
This week, I lend my friend the car so that he can park it lateral (i still don't know how to do it :)) I live in a small village, i don't need here this kind of skills :) ) so he broke my lights. So I had o buy some GLUE! And guess what, the GLUE comes in plastic! Where to find super-glue urgently that is wrapped in another thing?
I admit I got one plastic bag when I bought my rice... but this one i will reuse it for several of times... so it is not such a terrible thing :(
Unfortunately, my daughter came back with a single use plastic plate from a fair. She got herself a cake so she came back with the plate... I was kind of frustrated, but the person which went shopping with her, her teacher from school, didn't know that her mum is a freak :)) So I got a plate...
Somebody offered her a straw also in a bar... so here comes one more straw in the ocean.
And i guess that's it!
I managed once again to get all my veggies plastic free! My eggs plastic free! Milk I don't get anymore and if i will get, i will get in it jar. I managed to refuse some straws when i had the power to do it. I choose not to buy all this horrible yogurt 125ml packages that come in plastic and told my daughter I will gonna make her some fruity yogurt. Just get some goat yogurt and mix it with fruits. Healthier for us and the environment then the shitty danone ones.
I went to the chocolate factory one day and especially I choose the only chocolates that came without plastic (although the nice lollipops looked much better!) and she put them in a carton bag! I was so happy! But in the end, without me noticing it, the seller put a bit of plastic tape on the bag! Oh, man!
Strategy for the future - maybe I should just mention in the beginning before ordering anything - I don't want plastic. And not assuming that the shoppings will come plastic free.
That's it! But there is one more day ahead of this week! I will keep posting on this subject! :) Thank you for the woooonderful and positive messages I received last week when I started my experiment!