Congratulations Merren Tait on going ONE YEAR without buying plastic. We can all follow in Merren's example for a day, a week or a month during the Plastic Free July challenge!
Photo: Merren Tait's total rubbish after one year without buying plastic. Join us on Thursday July 3rd, 7pm at Valentes to learn about how you can go plastic free from Merren Tait. Tips, tricks and recipes!
Plastic Free July: The challenge is quite simple.
"Attempt to consume no single-use plastic during July."
Single-use plastic is anything that is intended to be used once then thrown away. "Single-use" includes plastic shopping bags, plastic cups, straws, plastic packaging ... basically anything that's intended only to be used once and then sent to landfill. If refusing ALL single-use plastic sounds too daunting, then develop your own PLASTIC FREE CHALLENGE and choose one or all of the following "big four" single-use plastic items:
1. plastic (shopping) bags;
2. disposable plastic cups and their lids (coffee cups, milkshake cups, fast food fizzy drink cups);
3. plastic straws, and;
4. plastic bottles.
Why?
