Developna story in about 80 to 100 words with the following ending ...... ............................................and thats how he got inspired to avoid the use of plastic
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Fifteen year old Amy Cooke was concerned about the number of small plastic bags that people used each day to but their fruit and vegetables. She started making her own and was then asked to present a community workshop teaching people how to make reusable produce bags from recycled net curtains. Amy buys the curtains from op shops and sews them into produce bags which she then sells, the proceeds going to her local community garden. She says I know how important it is to look after our natural environment...in our home, instead of plastic, we use my RE-Bag-it cloth bags for our fruit and vegetables
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As part of the event I spoke at in May organized by Plastic Free July, I was asked to talk about my own journey in reducing my plastic consumption. One of my favorite topics! It was a great chance to reflect on how my life has changed in the three-plus years since I gave up plastic, and for those of you that couldn’t come along I thought I’d share my story with you here too.
Reaching Plastic Free
Back-track to 2012, and I thought I was doing all the right things when it came to being environmentally friendly. I diligently recycled everything I could. I was a master recycler, sorting the plastic PET and HDPE bottles from the TetraPaks and the polypropylene plastic packaging, and disposing of it all responsibly. I religiously look my own bags to the shops. Of course, every now and then I took a plastic bag at the checkout – after all, I needed them to line my rubbish bin…
I first heard of the Plastic Free July campaign when I saw a flyer at my local library. I’d been living in Australia for just six months, having moved from the UK, and I was still finding my way around my local community. The challenge was to give up plastic for the month of July. Give up plastic for a month? I thought. Easy!
As part of the pre-Plastic Free July launch, there was a movie screening of the plastic documentary Bag It! I went along. It changed my life.
It was literally a lightbulb moment. A realization that plastic was a problem. A waste problem, a health problem, a lifestyle problem, a political problem and an environmental problem. And a realization that it was a problem that I could do something about.
I realized that if I wanted to see things change, I had to start with me. I also realized that giving up plastic wasn’t something that I was only going to commit to for a month. I was in it for the long-haul. Plastic-free was going to be my new way of living.
Going home that night, I was aware for the first time that plastic was everywhere. How had I not realised?! Had I been walking around with my eyes shut?! Everything was packaged in plastic! My pantry was filled with plastic-packaged products and my bathroom shelves were lined with plastic bottles. Shrink-wrap, bubble-wrap, plastic-wrap, plastic-lined, plastic-coated, plastic-sealed – arghh!
And so my plastic-free living adventure began…
That first plastic-free shop at the supermarket, I took home bananas, bread, apple juice in a glass bottle, pasta packaged in cardboard, toilet paper wrapped in paper and chocolate. The only plastic-free things that I could find. I realised that if I was going to commit to this, I had to be open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the first things I did to ease the transition:
Got hold of a reusable cup and reusable produce bags
Switched to bar soap and ditched the shower gel and hand wash
Looked up local veg box delivery schemes to avoid the supermarket packaging
Hunted around for bulk food stores – even places that sold a single item like olive oil
Headed to Farmers’ Markets to see what options were available
Dusted off the cookbooks and tried new recipes featuring ingredients that were easier to find in bulk
Learned how to make my own yoghurt, bread, nut milk, dips, you name it!
Learned how to make basic toiletries like deodorant and toothpaste
Talked to local producers / traders about selling items to me without packaging
Bought more things second hand and made use of the sharing economy – like using the library
Started using newspaper to line my bin rather than plastic bags!
The benefits have been enormous, and in plenty of ways that I hadn’t expected. The journey that giving up plastic has taken me on has been so much fun! I never thought that giving something up would give me so much more, but it has.
Interestingly, I spend far less on food now than I did before I quit plastic. Partly because all the processed food comes packaged in plastic, all the junk food that adds up on your grocery bill but doesn’t actually fill you up. Plus I stopped buying into those deals that seem like great offers until you end up with packets of stuff you don’t really need.
My diet is a lot better. I shop locally so the fruit and veggies I buy are a lot fresher, I eat far more whole foods and a lot less sugar, and I have a lot more energy.
I learned so many new skills.
That was all in the first six months!
We All Have the Power to Make a Difference
And that is how he got inspired to avoid the use of plastic.
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