The Plastic Diet: Day 4

Thanks to thecloseloop on Flickr for this great image

I’m four days into my plastic diet challenge, and already two unexpected bonuses of this challenge have started to manifest. By reducing my waste, I’m also saving money and following a more healthy diet. I realise that a plastic free diet is not only good for reducing the amount of rubbish I send to landfill, it’s also pretty good for my wallet (as I’m pretty much living off a diet of fresh fruit and veg, from my local grocer, purchased in paper bags), and it happens to be extremely healthy as the majority of items which come wrapped in non-recycled plastic are generally the fatty, sugary types of food which don’t do any of us any favours. The only fat I’ll be looking at for the next month will be olive oil, and if I want to eat biscuits, I’ll have to make them myself. (If you’re got any favourite vegan recipes you’d like to share then please let me have them in the comments.)

I imagined that this plastic diet would be harder than it is turning out to be. I’m very grateful for my trusty Wrap n Mat fabric sandwich wrapper, which is doing great service at the moment, and I ditched plastic bottles a long time ago, so that aspect of the plastic diet has not been a major change to the way I live. I’m surprised to find that my biggest problem is juice. I drink quite a lot of the stuff, and Tetrapak packaging is pretty environmentally friendly (although not the easiest to recycle) but the caps are made from plastic which doesn’t advertise itself as being recycled, so for now, juice and smoothies are out unless I make them myself. And guess what - my morning glass of OJ is all the sweeter when I’ve made it myself.

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This entry was written by Nigel and posted on Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 8:41 am and filed under Recycling, Packaging, Good things to do. Bookmark the permalink. You can follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment, or trackback from your own site.

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