User blog:LadyAzur/My Plastic Free July

Another party member created a Habitica challenge for plastic free july. He used only habits, but with both + and -. We had to click a + if we avoided plastic, or -, if we bought single use plastic containers, bags or the like.

By the end of july, I had one of the habits red and 2 blue. As you can read in the case studies, there are several ways to avoid plastic and support a clean environment. But in a european city it is not easy to avoid plastic.

One day, I walked into the supermarket and wanted to buy a cucumber. They had mini cucumbers in a plastic bag or bigger single cucumbers in plastic condoms - not one of them was sold without being wrapped into plastic! I bought radish instead ;-)

But I am trying to reduce my weight, too, so I needed to buy salads. And these are often sold in plastic bags or ready for lunch in a plastic dish. This resulted in a red habit for avoiding single use plastic. Although I tried to buy "naked" fruits and vegetables, I wasn't able to return to yellow.

And of course I was not able to win the challenge, but it was a great possibility to focus on plastic and how much single use plastic (waste, simply waste) we buy with our everyday errands. I am pretty sure that I will continue to avoid plastic wrapped vegetables, but I will still buy my salad in a plastic box for the next time. Perhaps this will change if I get better at menu planning and preparation.