Use of Plastic

Hello! This post will be about how we can reuse plastic when we buy it. ;)

1. If you do painting, reuse a bit of plastic to put the paint on (like a palette!) . Cut a large piece of plastic from a bottle, fruit container etc... and you're done! To keep the paint fresh if you are leaving it for a long time, cover the paint with non-PVC cling film. This reduces paint waste. (We recommend non-PVC because it is safe. Also try to get biodegradable cling film!)

2. Go to your local refill shop where you can take plastic bottles and get them filled with shampoo, washing up liquid etc. This saves extra plastic being produced.

3. If you have school projects where you need plastic, take in your used plastic so that you do not have to purchase more single-use plastic. For example, in our school we have STEAM week and for science we had to take in a plastic bottle. Instead of buying more plastic we found the cleanest plastic bottle on the ground on our way to school and used that. (This also shows how much litter there is in our environment which is not good!)

4. If you can't do these please recycle your plastic. When you are recycling your plastic please make sure it is clean and dry otherwise it will not be recycled and it will most likely go into landfill. Or if you don't have the opportunity to recycle please keep all the plastic you use in your house because it will go into the environment and endanger lots of species including humans.

Thank you for reading and we hope this has encouraged you be more eco- friendly!

We will post again soon,

-The Eco Sisters xxx