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!
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