Tips for avoiding single-use plastic

Have you ever thought about how best to cut down your own plastic consumption? Exactly! Stop buying single-use plastic, look out for the FLUSTIX seal on products and simply avoid plastic wherever possible. Since our plastic consumption in Germany has now reached a record high, we are making these plastic avoidance strategies our top resolutions for 2018. Above all when it comes to coffee and food to go! Plastic Patrol has created a great graphic, which we have summarised here in a few suggestions for you.

These are our plastic-free goals for 2018

1. Replace plastic bottles with refillable reusable drinking bottles.
2. Replace coffee-to-go cups with refillable insulated cups – they keep your drink warm and it tastes good for much longer!
3. Easy: replace plastic bags with reusable, stylish tote bags.
4. Lots of little coffee cups? – Why not make one large, reusable pot of coffee instead?
5. Instead of little plastic spoons and plastic stirrers, simply swirl one of our reusable insulated cups! And a proper spoon usually does the better job anyway.
6. Balloons are wonderful. But they often end up in nature and, as non-reusable soft plastic, they are very harmful to the environment. The same goes for glitter and other decorative materials. Why not decorate the next birthday party with fabric or recycled paper garlands?
7. That we do not need straws – deep down we all know that. So why not simply do without and order drinks without a plastic straw from the outset? And for anyone who really cannot do without their straws, there are already plenty of alternatives made of metal, paper or glass, for example from HALM.
8. Lighters or matches? – Clear winner: plastic-free matches!

So there they are, our everyday ideas and resolutions for 2018. They are simple and doable for everyone.
Do you have more ideas? Do share them with us in the comments.

We wish you a successful, healthy and happy new year!

GO PLASTIC-FREE!

Your flustix team