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Monthly Sustainability Challenge | July 2019: Refuse Single-Use Utensils

Posted on July 1, 2019March 1, 2020 by Malu

You already might be a pro sustainable take-away-hot-bevarage-drinker by now, but what about everything else?

This month I challenge you to refuse all SINGLE USE forks, spoons, knives, chop sticks, straws and water bottles.

Instead, have a look for easy, pop-in-your-bag alternatives that you can carry with you and whip out whenever you need them (long-term-borrowing cutlery from the cafeteria/office also works for those on a budget).

Zero waste is a thing now (thank you Hipsters!) and there’s awesome stuff being sold now. Sporks, wooden cutlery, personalized chop sticks, straws made of glass or metal, including a tiny pipe cleaner, and crazy collapsible cutlery and and lunch boxes.

Bag your fork, knife, spoon and chopsticks, pack a clean lunchbox!

And don’t be tricked by recyclable plastics! Its still single use and wasteful and most of the time only partially recyclable, yet treated as if 100% organic material. That’s worse than throwing a plastic spoon away correctly!

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    My name is Malu. I am a conservation-ecologist currently living in Germany. I’ve always been wild about the outdoors and can spend hours looking at an insect labouring away at its daily challenges, or a bird building its nest, or … there’s just so much amazing stuff happening out there! I’m really glad you’ve made it onto this page so I can share my joy with you.

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