Plastic Free July 2019
(Putting my Planet First)
Planet or Plastic? I just chose the Planet. Will you?
This Plastic Free July, I took up the challenge to refuse single-use plastic in all conscious forms and share the best practices,resources, ideas and lifestyle changes I have adopted over the years by putting Planet First!
If you are wondering what Plastic Free July is, read on.
Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution of plastic pollution- so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities.
At the outset, these are some of the primary reasons for choosing to avoid single-use plastics:
- Made from fossil- fuels 💨
- Huge carbon footprint 🦶
- Lasts forever ☠️
- Only a tiny percentage is recycled ❌♻️❌
- Pollutes our oceans 🌊
- Causes hormone disruption and cancers 🦠🧬
- Leaches toxins into food and drink 🧫
- Kills marine animals and birds 🐳🕊
- Enters our food chain 🍱
Here are 31 tips I gave out on my Instagram account during Plastic Free July to help my followers and community to live a life with less plastic one day at a time:
What goes up, must come down!
Tip 3- Avoid releasing balloons 🎈Sea turtles 🐢 often confuse brightly coloured balloons to be Jellyfish or sponges and ingest them. It can take just a single fragment of a balloon to end the life of a sea turtle!
Watch RubberJellyFish
Tip 4- Carry your own reusable travel coffee/tea mug. ☕️🥤
Watch the Life Cycle Of a Plastic Bottle to understand what happens to every plastic bottle we use.
Check out your plastic diet here!
Tip 10- REFUSE, REDUCE, RECYCLE ♻️, REPURPOSE, REPROCESS, REUSE SINGLE- USE PLASTIC, REBEL AND REPEAT
- Sanjana Kallesha
Refuse straws with take away and dine-in drinks. Better yet, carry your own reusable straw or just go straw-less !
For more tips and information on sustainable living, follow me on Instagram here.
We don’t need a handful of people doing zero-waste perfectly, we need MILLIONS of people doing it IMPERFECTLY!
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