I really love the idea of reducing single use plastics in my life. What have you done to successfully reduce or eliminate it?

I am finding that there are things that I can replace stuff with but they don’t tend to work as well. If I can get like 90% efficacy out of a more eco friendly replacement then I’m good, but it’s been more like 50% so far.

  • flicker@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    I work in in-home health care and I go through so many pairs of gloves in a day…

    But there’s no more hygenic option for cleaning up human waste so… just screwed.

    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      1 year ago

      Health related items are probably one of the few appropriate times to use plastic. I think that’s a pretty common opinion. The medical world uses a lot of plastic to saves lives, compared to cocacola which uses single use plastic to save money and make us unhealthy