The plastic diet: my experience
Hi! As I mentioned earlier today, I participated in a challenge in September last year. It was called 'the plastic diet' and it challenged the participants to avoid plastic packaging as much as possible. The first thing I want to say about this whole experience is that it was very doable. I imagined it would be harder than it actually was. So during the month of september I went on a plastic diet. I tried to buy as little packaged in plastic as possible. It turned out to be more time consuming than shopping like I normally do but I liked it and knew that what I was doing was actually good for the planet and not polluting it as much. For the duration of the challenge I decided to put my plastic waste and 'restafval' (which is all the trash that isn't glass/paper/plastic packaging) in a big glass jar. There are a lot of crisps bags in there. Oops.. Planning was very important and a lot of meals turned out to be very simple and mostly home-made, which was...