It is World Refill Day! One of the best ways to reduce your plastic footprint is to refill your own containers. Grains, nuts, beans, and spices are so easy to purchase in bulk. From my experience, food coops are the easiest places to bring and use your own containers. Yesterday, my husband and I filled over ten of our own containers at a food coop. That’s a huge reduction in packaging! Don’t start with more than two or three items. Those at the coop will be glad to help you get started. Usually you begin with a tare weight of your container, fill your container with the item you want, label the number of the product on the container with the tare weight. Your coop might have a different process, but it will be similar to this. It sounds confusing, but it is easy when you see the entire process.
As a global movement, we have the power to create a wave of change. By choosing to reuse, we’re saving millions of pieces of plastic and sending a message to the rest of the world that the solutions to plastic pollution and the climate crisis are there – and together we can keep our environment, oceans, cities and communities plastic-free for the future.
Our throwaway culture is polluting our planet and we need to turn off the tap when it comes to single-use plastic. Globally, we use millions of tonnes every year and it’s becoming clear that we can’t recycle our way out of our plastic problem. Plastic is not only polluting our planet, impacting communities around the world, and contributing to the climate crisis, but it’s making its way into our bodies through the air we breathe and the food we eat.
We urgently need to shift from our disposable, single-use culture to a more sustainable, circular future, with reuse & refill at the centre. World Refill Day – Refill – Join the Refill Revolution
TOGETHER WE ARE POWERFUL
Refill your own containers.
Refilling an olive oil bottle.
Refill soaps, body lotion, and shampoo, too!
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