The lack of recycling in my area led me to remove as much plastic waste as possible. I began repurposing, making, etc a lot of the food, products we use.
Tea bags create a lot of waste. I buy loose teas and grow herbal teas. I use cotton teabags I sewed and teaballs.
Plastic bags for food storage. I have silcone bags, beewrap, and glass containers.
My health and beauty products I make are stored in amber glass containers.
I am not saying cart everything plastic to the dump and spent a fortune in replacing it all. I am saying little things such as washing the ziplock bags and reusing them until they are not useful.
Metal hummingbird feeders.
Buy bulk foods and store in mason jars.
Repurpose your damaged baking tins into seed trays. Muffin tins can be used for growing starters.
After my 3rd nonstick frying pan was destoyed by a guest. I decided that we would only use cast iron. It requires effort to keep it nice, but so worth it.
I shop for vinatage jewelry and remake it into pieces that look better than current department store. I like having on of a kind pieces.
Our neighbors have returned from their wintering. My dear friend remarked, "Isn't the chair covers to the outdoor dining room chairs, last's years's summer dresses." I smiled, "Of course, they are. I adore wearing new dresses and when I tire of them, I use them for soemthing else." My porch swing was restuffed with last year's pillows shredded. I covered the swing cushions with last year's bedspread. I made new pillow covers for the swing with our daughter's last year's skirts. I often make the kids shorts from last year's jeans. One wouldn't know the difference because I hem, cuff, or add trim, so it has a finished look, not a hacked mom is cheap look.
Swiffer mops are great for quick mopping. You can make cleaning refills and sew the resusable mop heads.
I have 30 grocery bags that I have finished sewing, We also have net produce bags. A large bin for heavy items. Grocery list in my phone. This is a lot of waste eliminated. Our town stopped with plastic bags a year ago. They did start selling paper bags.
If you own a product and it fails, contact the company. Bona has sent me a replacement for their mop system 3 times now. The flaw is in the mop head.
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