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Warning: Following the steps in this post would radically simplify your bathroom routine.:)
Considering the fact that approximately 23 billion toothbrushes are thrown away every year, I think we need to talk about reducing plastic use in the bathroom.
I’ve found that the easiest way to reduce plastic use in the bathroom is to minimize my bathroom routine. After rounds of minimizing, my bathroom routine has been low-waste and low-plastic for the past 4 years, and it has saved me loads of money!
It started with a decision to switch to a bar soap — one of the most effective and easiest switch to remove a “plastic fixed cost”. And it’s great because…
… all those shampoo bottles can’t actually be recycled. And then you think about how long you’ve been on this planet, how many bottles you’ve used — it makes you step back and reflect.
Siobhán Pereira, carbon specialist at Costain Group
Besides, recycling is a lousy option compared to not using plastic in the first place.
