Last month, “06880” introduced Sustainable Westport’s newest project: “UnPlastic Westport.”
The initiative aims to reduce single-use plastics, and expand water-filling stations around town. The goal is to “turn shared intention into measurable, community-wide change.”
Once a month, we’ll help them highlight an area of daily life where single-use plastic is most common, along with practical ideas to use. This month, we head to the bathroom.
The bathroom is one of the rooms where single-use plastic shows up the most. From shampoo bottles and toothpaste tubes to disposable razors and cleansers with microbeads, much of this plastic is hard to recycle.
How many of these plastics are in your bathroom?
It can make its way into waterways, where microplastics accumulate in rivers and Long Island Sound, harming our wildlife and ecosystems.
This February, Sustainable Westport invites you to “Pledge to UnPlastic” by starting with simple bathroom swaps. Small changes at home can make a real difference for our waterways. Which will you try first?
- Start using bar soap or bar shampoo
- Select cleansing products without microbeads
- Replace plastic toothbrushes with bamboo or replaceable heads
- Try refillable or concentrated products
- Opt for a natural loofah (you can even grow your own!)
Ready to pledge to UnPlastic? Already pledged and taking steps to UnPlastic? Click here — you could be featured here next month!
(“06880” keeps an eye on Westport’s environment — and every other part of town. Please click here to support our work. Thank you!)
I haven’t “unplastic-ed my toothbrush, but am happily using Trader Joe’s brush “made with love and little yogurt cups!”
Have been doing this for years, and for those who have plastic toothbrushes or plastic oral care packaging that need to be recycled, checkout TerraCycle.com ! Individuals can easily signup online for FREE recycling programs for many consumer products, and they send you free shipping labels, all you have to do is pack up and send! I also signed Earthplace up as a national drop-off location for oral care packages! Go check that out too!
When the first round of ban plastic bags came around – I purchased reusable bags. Has anyone else noticed that certain stores charge whatever price they want for a bag – if you do not have one. One store may give you a bag for .10 cents and another for .50 cents? Who is policing these stores? I personally do not want to have more of this overseeing where humans can profit off of me to “save the planet”.
Avid nature lover here – and freedom lover. Any information on this is appreciated.