Real Living Australia

QUIT PLASTIC

WHILE IT’S BECOME increasingly apparent that we need to reduce the amount of plastic in our lives for the sake of the environment and our future existence, the sheer magnitude of the problem makes it seem like a daunting task. In their book Quitting Plastic, Clara Williams Roldan and her mum Louise Williams offer non-scary ways to make a big difference.

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getting started

Try to keep these four Rs in mind when you’re out shopping for household products and going about your daily life.

Refuse This one is pretty simple. Just say no to plastic N bags, bottled water and all those easy things to avoid.

Today, we humans consume eight times more resources worldwide than a century ago. And while we used to consume mostly renewable biomass, like wood

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