Each Little Change Makes a Difference
A turtle with a plastic straw stuck deep in its nose, dolphins mutilated by plastic nets, birds swallowing plastic trash, our plastic addiction has wreaked havoc across marine and coastal ecosystems worldwide and is affecting our health. Over 90% of ALL the plastic we have ever produced has not been recycled!
The only solution is to accelerate a global transition to fully recover, reuse, or recycle all plastics and most of all to stop using it and producing it.
We are at a step in our civilisation where each of us needs to take responsibility for our actions. Plastic is a disaster! We know it.
If you are ready to make a difference, you can start by refusing to buy anything in plastic and replacing plastic in your own home. Trying to reduce your waste is the next step and each of us can do it.
The optimum goal? Zero waste!
Here are some ideas and fabulous affordable products that will help you ditch plastic out of your life!
1/Shopping
- Bring your own cloth shopping bags. Opt for natural fibres as synthetic materials shed tiny plastic fibres in the washing machine that ends up in our rivers and oceans.
- Bring your own cloth produce, jars and bulk bags.
- Shop at farmers’ markets where you will find fresh, seasonal, local, organic produce that you can usually buy unpackaged.
- Refuse plastic bags given to you in shops and explain why. Educate and use your customer’s power to instigate change.
2/In the Kitchen
- Keep empty glass jars to store food in your pantry and fridge.
- Buy a couple of reusable Stretch Lid Silicone set, Reusable Clear Food Wrap Set or/and Bee’s wrap and shake off that clingy wrap and plastic containers once and for all!
- Buy scrubbing brushes made out of bamboo and 100% plant fibre for the bristles (did you know most brushes, even ones labelled “eco”, use either plastic bristles or animal hair bristles?)
- Stop buying bottled water*, use a filter and drink filtered tap water. Check Annsation offer.
- Think stainless steel straws and stainless still water bottle
- Many places now refill bottles of dishwasher soap.
2/In the bathroom
- Make you own Lavender or Lemon Body Scrub (ask me for recipes)
- Replace liquid shampoo (and conditioner) by solid shampoo and conditioner bars
- Make your own natural bathroom and toilet spray (ask me for recipes)
- Use Bamboo tooth brush and
Here are some great facebook pages and website where you can find products and inspiration:
Online Shops for Reusable silicon lids, food wrap set, stainless still straws, Bamboo brushes and more: 
Photo 1, Waste Free Planet, Photo 2, Marco Terranova
*Crazy numbers! A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number is projected to jump another 20% by 2021
- This equates to about 20,000 bottles being bought every second
- More than 480 billion plastic drinking bottles were sold in 2016 across the world, up from about 300 billion a decade ago. If placed end to end, these bottles would extend more than halfway to the sun.
- By 2021 annual plastic bottles sold is projected to increase to 583.3 billion.
- Fewer than half of the bottles bought in 2016 were collected for recycling and just 7% of those collected were turned into new bottles. That means, approximately 93% of the 480 billion plastic water bottles sold in 2016 ended up in landfill or in the ocean. And that’s only for bottles!