Ditching The Dreadful Bin Liner

A Simple Way to Reduce Household Plastic Use

Bin liners!

Brightly coloured rolls of the things lurk in our kitchen drawers and barely register on our consciousness. When our kitchen bin gets full, we tie the liner top and take it to our outside bin. Then, we grab a new bag from the roll and line our kitchen tidy bin with it, while no doubt thinking of things less mundane.

And the cycle continues. Every day or so, depending on how much kitchen waste you generate.

Using something as seemingly innocuous as a kitchen bin liner may seem unimportant. Until you start to think about it.

We buy this product only to throw it away. It has no other use. Its entire purpose is to hold rubbish for a short time before it and its contents end up in landfill.

Do some quick calculations and you start to realize how appalling bin liners are from an environmental perspective. Hundreds per year from every household that uses them. Around the world, millions upon millions of them end up in garbage dumps.

All that extra, environmentally destructive plastic waste. All those precious resources wasted to produce and transport…