100 Steps to a Plastic-Free Life

We have some nice bulk food stores in the Bay Area (Rainbow, Berkeley Bowl, Whole Foods), and I can get almost all the dry food and some personal care products from the bulk I will. These foods include rice and other grains, pasta, beans (learning to cook dry beans is an important part of life without plastics), seeds, nuts, various flour, baking soda and Other dried baking materials, including cereal and granola, pretzels and chips, some sweets, tofu, oil, nut butter, olives, herbs, tea and coffee, and more than what I imagine now .

The important thing is to bring my own reusable bags and containers to the store. You can carry the same type cotton bag for bulk purchase and production (see above). Glass bottles and other containers are also very useful. Why do you purchase from a bulk box and bring a new plastic bag?

One of the questions I often ask is how to avoid the extra weight of payment containers. There are various ways for the store to deduct the weight of the container. For example, at Whole Foods, I took my container to the customer service desk and weighed them before filling. Thereafter, the weight will be deducted from the total weight of the item at the checkout counter. In the Berkeley Bowl, empty containers are weighed with a bulk counter and are checked out after being weighed at the same counter when it is full. Rainbow Grocery calls customers as their own containers. All the cotton bags I use are tared on the label.

Focus on cross-contamination of allergic people? Please check my article on avoiding gluten without plastics yet

Even if you live in an area without a large grocery store, you can still buy fresh food with big packaging that reduces the amount of plastic used overall.

"In our daily life, personal actions are always possible by returning too many plastic bags to the company or by sending a letter that does not require a plastic substitute. Before we begin promotion, we can start plastics for free. " Greenpeace plastic activist, Chen

This plastic pleasure made by Zephyrhills is completely free of BPA (100% recyclable). When your baby removes this part of plastic and is fascinated by the pleated plastic sound, you may begin to doubt the value of all these real toys on your living room floor. anything. Your baby will be happily occupied for a long time to catch up with some episodes of House Hunters. This daily necessity, the winner of Top Toy in 2017, offers two layers of plastic for grasping, wrinkling and taste. If you think that it seems a bit rough as you sit on the floor of your kitchen, wait until you see how good it will look in a new place on the table in the kitchen, It will last for a while!

If you want to know how our grandparents live, the answer is simple. They are living a natural life. They worked hard, eat what they grow up, cooked natural food, left unprocessed, without plastic and microwave. It is protected from social media and the internet. It is released from radiation of "smartphone". They sleep enough from dusk to dawn. Today, everyone suddenly has been diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia, so I take medicine for that. Everyone has sourness and prescription drugs. Everyone has osteoporosis. Everyone has low T (testosterone). Everyone is full of energy. Everyone is classified as obese. Everyone suffers from high blood pressure, and everyone suffers from depression. I do not remember grandparents suffering from Alzheimer's disease. No parents have dementia. Yes, we live longer than now and have better diagnosis and diagnostic imaging ... but we are really healthy! One in three Americans develop cancer in the coming years It is estimated.