9 SUPER SIMPLE TIPS TO USE LESS PLASTIC

LIFESTYLE

Apr 20

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In celebration of Earth Day this April, I’ve partnered with Dafi to share 9 Super Simple Tips to Use Less Plastic Every Day, featuring their line of water bottles, filters and air-tight containers.

Hey eco, travel and wellness warriors! I’m fresh back from Mexico City, and while I’ve adapted to call Mexico now a second country and third home for me, something I can’t get used to is all of the plastic they use there. We take a visit to the neighboring “vegetaleria” the little fruit and vegetable stand, every morning for fresh fruits and juices for breakfast. But, alas, the fruits are each put in at least four plastics bags and the fresh juice we get is in styrofoam. With a straw. Eek!

Grocery visits, the same thing, and of course, you need to buy bottled water, so there’s more plastic being added to the trash pile. This issue of over consumption and use (or abuse) of plastic is not limited to Mexico, mis gringos.

We do the SAME thing in the United States too!

How many bags do they give you at the grocery store for your food? And, the bottled water you buy in packs of 24? Or, your lunches or takeout order typically comes wrapped in…?

Plastic.

Here are some facts:

1 million plastic bottles are bought worldwide PER MINUTE
Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide (that comes out to over one million per minute)
On average, we only recycle one plastic bag in every 200 we use
Plastic takes over 600 years to bio-degrade

Now I’m not sure about you, but 600 years is far longer than my lifetime. At this pace, and rate, future generations will be swimming in plastic and garbage instead of enjoying the beaches and oceans we are privileged to have today.

Dafi is a worldwide known brand of products such as water pitchers, filtering cartridges, sport filtering bottles and vacuum containers. They’ve have been on the market for over 30 years and offer a variety of options of water pitchers and filtered water bottles. Dafi hopes to increase awareness of plastic waste and decrease amount of water bottles thrown away in order to preserve and save the environment for future generations, so insert LIVE FREE WARRIOR!

Here’s what we can do. I’ve partnered with Dafi to share 9 Super Simple Tips to Use Less Plastic Every Day, featuring their line of water bottles, filters and air-tight containers.

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