COMMENT: As supermarkets and retailers around the country implement a ban on plastic bags, I've decided to take on my own plastic challenge: to do away with the stuff altogether.
Bolstered by a friend's zero-waste mission as a single mum with a 3-year-old - which she took on back when the rest of us were still double-bagging our groceries and had never heard of a Keep Cup - surely child-free-me cutting out plastic wouldn't take much?
But after just one day, it looks like it's not going to be as simple as remembering my reusable shopping bag and saying no to the plastic knife handed to me with my morning scone - which I carry upstairs and use instead of taking a piece of cutlery from the kitchen draw a mere 10 metres away. Yep, I've only just realised how moronic this is.
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As I finished my scone and started thinking about what I'd make for dinner that night (where do you buy tortillas that don't come in plastic?) it dawned on me that I'm going to have to reconsider every product I'm bringing into my house - how can you buy toilet paper sans plastic? Is there somewhere to buy dishwashing liquid that doesn't come in plastic? It turns out there is: ecostore has a bunch of refillery stations around town.