Thoughts on How to be Environmentally Friendly - Use Soap

With a glut of plastics in our landfills on land and in the oceans, it has become more urgent to tackle reduction of single use plastics and unnecessary plastic packaging. In our household, I have tried to make some small changes and re-think our habits to reduce use of plastics. 

For example, we try to avoid the use of cling wrap by storing food in reusable glass containers in the fridge, or covering bowls of food being microwaved with glass plates. We also bring our own bags to the supermarket including those for bagging loose fruits and vegetables.

A new idea came to me the other day - maybe we should use soap instead of body wash and hand wash. Soap lasts longer, and comes in less packaging usually in paper (albeit waxed paper) than body and hand wash. Body and hand wash comes in plastic containers, its refills comes in plastic containers as well. 

So I have bought some bars of soap to be used in the shower and in the sink. So far, it has worked just as well. In fact, we used to use soap as kids before liquid soap with fancy smells and colours took over. Not to mention the disaster that was micro plastics parading as 'moisture beads', now they are all over the ocean, in fishes and probably in our stomachs as well. 

There are still lots to do to reduce my use of plastics, but every little bit counts!