This New Year, Plastic Free Chesterfield are challenging you to take a Plastic Free Pledge for 2021 and make at least one swap away from using single-use plastics.
To help you, here are 21 ideas for your 2021 new year’s resolutions:
- Buy unpackaged fruit and vegetables (from greengrocers such as in Chesterfield Marketplace) using your own brought-from-home bags
- Give up plastic bottles, buy a reusable one and refill for free at locations all over town
- Say no to a to-go cup, buy a reusable one and be rewarded with a discount on your coffee too
- Use your own containers to buy cheese, meat, fish & deli items
- Say no to a plastic bag, invest in a reusable bag and keep it on your person at all times
- Say no to single-use cutlery. Either take your own stainless steel, or buy bamboo or other reusable cutlery to use on-the-go
- Switch to loofah washing up cloths and wooden scourer brushes
- Purchase some beeswax or vegan food wraps to replace cling film and foil
- Give up plastic-wrapped snacks and sweets. Try plastic-free crisps with Steph’s Sustainable Stuff
- Make your own packed lunches and hot drinks in thermos flasks instead of buying packaged sandwiches when out and about
- Cut down on plastic bottled milk and plastic bottle fruit juices and have them delivered in glass bottles from a local milk delivery service
- Switch to dishwasher powder or dissolve-able tablets
- Switch to bamboo toothbrushes or recycle your electric toothbrush heads
- Switch to Toothpaste Tabs or try Truthpaste in a jar
- Switch to plastic-free toilet roll, such as Who Gives A Crap
- Head to Steph’s Sustainable Stuff or Waste Not Want Not for refills on laundry & washing up detergents
- Try out shampoo bars and use nice soap instead of shower gels
- Switch from tea bags to tea leaves (most tea bags contain plastic). You can get this from Cup & Saucer, Steph’s Sustainable Stuff or Northern Tea Merchants
- Give up ready-made meals
- Make your own hummus, dips, snacks, biscuits, crackers… get creative!
- Shop at Steph’s Sustainable Stuff for plastic-free refills of pantry goods such as pasta, rice, lentils, nuts & seeds, as well as herbs and spices
Take the 2021 Plastic Free Pledge
