Ways to reduce your plastic use

1. Promote reusable/refillable containers for consumables

Extend the reusable shopping bag idea to more consumables. Coffee, sugar, cereal, produce, juice and more could all be bought in reusable containers that could be returned to the store. Maybe revive the practice of giving people back a few cents deposit or credit on return of containers.

2. Separate the display packaging from the take-home packaging for goods

A lot of packaging exists only to sell or communicate the properties of a product. Standardize separable packaging so you can look at a product's info in a container that stays at the store but then you put contents with minimalist packaging in your basket. (We do this at home anyway. If we do it at the store, the outer/display packaging can be reused).

3. Encourage a sustainable/reusable category of utility goods

Make a "sustainable" logo/stamp that identifies goods that are made in a sustainable way but also have a purpose-designed life-cycle. If your sustainable item breaks or wears out, there's a place in the store to return it and get a discount on a replacement.

4. Replace bulky plastic handles on products with modular, reusable handles.

Think about the plastic waste from razors, toothbrushes, hair brushes, toilet brushes, dusters, etc. That's most of the bulk of the products' waste yet the handle is the most generic part, only has to fit human hands and be a certain length.
Provide modular handles of 5, 10, 25 inches, etc. made with sustainable materials that plug into the razor head, toothbrush, so only the consumable part ever ends up in the landfill.

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Ways to reduce your plastic use

1. Promote reusable/refillable containers for consumables

2. Separate the display packaging from the take-home packaging for goods

3. Encourage a sustainable/reusable category of utility goods

4. Replace bulky plastic handles on products with modular, reusable handles.

5. Add tariffs to goods that don't use green packaging or tax incentives for domestic products that do

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