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What I learned about a plastic-free life


Plastic is everywhere, but we ditched it for a week. Here are some tips from our experiment that you can use to cut back your own plastic use.

🍑Peach rings (peaches, splash of juice, gelatin, sugar, citric acid — I used an ice cube tray instead of a candy mold to avoid buying plastic) But one night, I didn’t make plans for dinner and left the house with an empty stomach, and ended up getting fish and chips in a single-use takeaway container. I learned that the tiny glass vial of concentrate I used when my multipurpose cleaner ran out was not recyclable, since it’s less than 2 inches in height and diameter — a size that causes it to fall through the cracks of the sorting process.

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