Plastic-Free Tuesday
Plastic-Free Tuesday is a growing global movement. On Plastic-Free Tuesday we skip plastic to reduce our plastic footprint. That means we don’t buy anything that is made of plastic or contains plastic. We also don’t use anything made of plastic that we have to throw away after using it. So no bananas wrapped in plastic, no plastic bags, no take-away coffee in plastic cups and so on.
Plastic damages our health and our environment. In many instances, plastic is used once and then thrown away. Carrots, bananas and other fruits and veggies are wrapped in plastic while they have a perfectly (edible) wrap already! To cut down on plastic consumption, join Plastic-Free Tuesday. Click on About to read more.
Don't feed the plastic monster!
Breaking the Paper Towel Habit
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10 tips for plastic-free stocking fillers
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Tips for a plastic-free Christmas
Whether you’re looking to have an entirely plastic-free Christmas or just trying to reduce a…
You’ve heard about reusable menstrual products. Is it time to make the switch?
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Avoiding Plastic While Eating Out
If you’ve been paying attention to the amount of trash you produce, you’ve probably realized…
Is there a machine that can clean the ocean?
If you’re keeping up with plastic news (it’s not just me constantly refreshing my Google…
Packing list for plastic-free travellers
Summer days are here and you have your trip booked to your next destination. Now…
Paper or Plastic? Let’s Choose the Planet
Replacing single-use plastic with single-use paper is not the answer The recent announcement that U.K.…
Recycling won’t solve our plastic crisis - action must start with reducing and reusing
“Our plastic pollution crisis is too big for recycling to fix.” This is what Executive…
Online shopping? This is how you do it plastic-free!
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Plastic pollution for 5 year olds - Planet ERATH
The first time I took my husband Gyuszi to visit my home country, the thing…
Microplastics: Five things you can do about it
Every time we wash our fleece jacket, sleeping bag, or running tights, thousands of microplastic…
Tips & tricks for grocery shopping with less waste
Buying food without packaging has been a major challenge for me. Everywhere I go everything…
Baking soda and vinegar: wallet-friendly, eco-friendly cleaning tools
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Solid shampoo? Here’s why you should try it
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3 tiny steps all of us can take to reduce microplastic in our oceans
1.4 million trillion. That is the number of synthetic fibers in our oceans. Every time…
Finally making the switch to a menstrual cup
To the males amongst our subscribers I would say please forward this to your girlfriends.…
Plastic-free after moving to a new place: 7 tips
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Time to turn the tide and save our beautiful marine environment
I consider myself a pretty environmentally-minded person: after sailing across the Pacific and seeing all…
DIY deodorant experiment
Last week I wrote about plastic free deodorant. I wrote that after several failed experiments,…
Plastic-free deodorant
Before I embarked on my plastic free journey, I had dozens different personal care products,…
Annika’s Orange Body Scrub
It has been ages since our last blog post. Other things in life are keeping…
Plastic-free cleaning tools: Dish brush, dish clothes, vinegar
While I have found many plastic free alternatives in the area of food, much less…
Refill cleaning products
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5 Small Resolutions for less plastic waste
If you are like me, you have a tendency to be over ambitious with your…
How to keep your whites white with lemon juice
As I wrote last week, I have tried many different things to wash my clothes…
5 x plastic free home cleaning
Since the launch of Plastic-Free Tuesday about two years ago I have been experimenting with…
Plastic-free holidays
I just came back from a vacation on Madeira, a beautiful, sunny island located 1,000…
10x plastic-free gifts for X-mas!
The holiday season has arrived! For many people that means sharing gifts with loved ones.…
Small steps for a healthy planet
Today is an easy #PlasticFreeTuesday for me. That’s because I #FastForTheClimate. No food for me…
Plastic free on the go
A while ago, Maaike blogged about her first ever Plastic Free Tuesday, which made her…
How to choose the perfect water bottle
If you’ve read last week’s blog post, you know there are many reasons to ditch…
5 Reasons To Ditch Plastic Water Bottles
While it may seem daunting to completely remove plastic from your life, an easy way…
3 simple and cheap plastic-free breakfasts (and a giveaway!)
Sometimes people tell me that they want to eat plastic-free, but that they don’t have…
Perfect plastic-free snack: Vegetable medley with home-made salsa
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Plastic-Free Dairy Alternative: Sesame Seeds Milk!
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How to shop plastic-free at your regular supermarket
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Five items that will make your plastic free holiday easy
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Homemade Pasta, without the Plastic
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Save Our Planet: Pick up one piece of litter a day
Over the years I have lived in many different places and countries, but one thing…
7 tips to get started with Plastic-Free Tuesdays
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How Barcodes Can Help Stop the Plastic Waste Stream
This week, Clara Salina shares her take on the problem of Plastic Soup and how…
Offline Campaigning for a Plastic-Free World
No need for sweet talks or smooth salesman skills to get support from local shops!…
Tips for Living With Less Plastic in China
For study and work reasons, I regularly spend time in China. Most of 2014 I…
3 reasons to avoid plastic
Complicating the problem of plastic pollution is the fact that there are many different types…
3 Tips For Plastic-Free Postal Packaging
My name is Jan Campbell and I run a small Etsy store where I sell…
Plastic-Free Tuesday goes Arabic!
I am so happy and thankful that so many of you are helping to spread…
Are You Our New Facebook Community Manager?
The Plastic-Free Tuesday movement is growing bigger. People from all around the world are showing…
Tips on “Packing” for your Plastic-Free Journey
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Why I converted to a Life With Less Plastic (and How I Make My Habits Stick)
I live an (almost) plastic-free life. No disposable plastic packaging. No plastic bags, no straws,…
Plastic-Free New Year’s resolutions from the Plastic-Free Tuesday Team!
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Start 2015 plastic-free with this alchemy guide to cosmetics
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How Plastic Conscious Are You?
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Changing Christmas Traditions
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Global and growing - Posters in Slovenian and Finnish!
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Plastic-free Period
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What is plastic, why is it bad and 2 things you can do about plastic pollution
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Reducing your Plastic Footprint - Getting Started
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One Old Bed Sheet = Less Plastic
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How I woke up to plastic
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Oaknut coffee recipe from the wild
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Living with Less Plastic in Dahab, Egypt
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Erik’s first Plastic-Free Tuesday: “Plan ahead” and “Grow your own”
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6 daily staple foods (and how to find them Plastic-Free)
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BPA part II: The bad story of bottles, canned food, and BPA
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Clean drinking water, reusable bottles
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Plastic might make you fat
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Plastic disaster
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To turtles, plastic is food.
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3 short plastic-free videos you must see
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Clean drinking water, but not bottled
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DIY almond flour
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Maaike’s advice: Don’t overthink it
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#DoNotLitter
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3 Reasons to have a Plastic-Free Tuesday every week!
Before I start off with this post, I have to note first that there may…
How to reduce the use of plastic (produce) bags? Help brainstorm!
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5 plastic confessions
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5 reasons to say no to bottled water
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Hidden Plastics?! Yikes! 5 x Plastic-Free Tuesday for the advanced
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How to make plastic-free pasta
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But can’t you just burn plastic?
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Plastic-Free Tuesday poster now also in Swedish and Spanish! Spread the word!
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Where does your water come from? Tap vs bottled water.
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The Life of a Zero Waster (Photo By The Hour)
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New Plastic-Free Tuesday posters: German and Romanian editions!
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Towards less plastic. One step at a time.
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Plastic-Free Tuesday posters! And 10 tips how to spread them.
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The esthetics of plastic-free tooth brushing
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I want it to be Tuesday everyday!
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More initiatives coming up soon: Zero-Plastic Week (from 9-15 June) & Plastic-Free July. Have a go!
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Bags and coffee machines
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10 tips for Plastic-Free Tuesday in a shared house
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Plastic-Free Tuesday for everyone. Take the challenge!
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