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    Plastic Free for Beginners
    Plastic Free for Beginners
    Plastic Free for Beginners
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    Plastic Free for Beginners

    By Sara Patriche

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    Vegetables wrapped in foil, shower gel packs and plastic spatulas - we encounter plastic everywhere in everyday life, mostly completely unnecessary. For the sake of our planet, doing without it often seems very time-consuming and complicated. But the committed environmental activist Sara Patriche  proves that a plastic-free life is much easier than many believe. In 3 steps, she shows how we find easy-to-implement alternatives and provides innovative ideas for an environmentally friendly lifestyle - and without much effort! With practical tips for shopping in the supermarket, plastic alternatives when traveling or for homemade deodorant.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Reynolds
    Release dateMar 10, 2023
    ISBN9798215537602
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      Plastic Free for Beginners - Sara Patriche

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      A look behind the scenes

      Plastic waste

      Everything for the bin

      The most important thing about plastic

      N The plastic-free life

      Step 1: The new lifestyle

      Helpful equipment

      Established attitude

      Plastic-free ground rules

      Simple alternatives for a plastic-free everyday life

      Step 2: Change habits

      Shop plastic free

      Be plastic-free on the road

      natural clothing

      Alternatives for advanced users

      Step 3: Plastic-free experts

      raise children

      do it yourself

      Helpful home remedies

      Even more helpers

      A dash of specialist knowledge

      Alternatives for experts

      Precede

      Plastic Free for Beginners

      Author: Sara Patriche

      © Copyright 2023 - All Rights Reserved.

      The content contained within this book may not be reproduced, duplicated, or transmitted without direct written permission from the author or the publisher.

      Under no circumstances will any blame or legal responsibility be held against the publisher, or author, for any damages, reparation, or monetary loss due to the information contained within this book. Either directly or indirectly.

      Foreword

      Tell me, Grandma, what did you actually use to brush your teeth before? Well, with a wooden toothbrush, said my grandma in a matter-of-fact tone. I was surprised. What sounds like a conversation between my grandmother and a ten-year-old was just two years ago. At the time I was 27 years old. And owning a wooden toothbrush was anything but a matter of course. The fact that I asked the question so late was entirely my own fault. Up to this point I had only perceived the versatile plastic in its perfection and usefulness - without any doubt. But I'll catch my breath first and report in sequence.

      When my mother gave birth to me in 1988, I was already in the middle of the plastic age. The doctors held me with their disposable gloves and cut my umbilical cord with scissors with green plastic handles. Dad brought a plastic bag of nerve food - chocolate, double and triple trapped in plastic. The versatile plastic experienced a real boom in the 1980s and could not only be found in every corner of the hospital. No: Plastic was and is omnipresent. While the unusable plastic waste used to be hidden in pits in many villages, it is now overwhelming us – not only in Germany, but all over the world. Because plastic is not biodegradable and stays forever.

      An experience during my trip through Sri Lanka confirmed this and stubbornly anchored itself in my long-term memory: After a surfing lesson in the south of the island, I walked a few kilometers along the water. Even though one or two plastic drinking cups had already spilled out at me on the surfboard, this time I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. A meter-long bead of plastic bottles, drinking cups, Styrofoam containers and diapers as well as dead fish and birds rolled back and forth between the sandy beach and the waves. The sight was as hard to bear as the smell. A plastic bottle that was more than 30 years old was also lost in all the disposable waste. She revealed her approximate age by the best-before date printed on it. A slightly faded, but still very legible to be used up until 18.05.1986 adorned the long, transparent neck of the bottle. At that moment I realized: plastic lasts forever.

      For me it was the decisive impetus to declare war on the everlasting plastic waste. I came, saw and researched. I couldn't look away anymore. Werner Boote then literally stuck matches between my eyes with his film »Plastic Planet«. If plastic had existed in the Middle Ages, it would even have been possible to find a plastic bottle with an expiration date of 1568 on the beach.

      Because it takes almost 500 years for an ordinary plastic bottle in the sea to decompose into invisible microplastics due to friction, salt water, wind and waves. With every word I read, heard, and jotted down about the hyped plastic, I realized more and more of its dangers. Realizing that I was part of the problem through my excessive plastic consumption up to that point, I decided to become part of the solution by leading a largely plastic-free lifestyle.

      Two years later, I wrote this book to share the knowledge and insights I had gained in an easy-to-implement, step-by-step program. I don't live in the forest without cash or only walk around barefoot - I'm a completely normal person and an open, honest entrepreneur who has nature in my heart. With a large dose of motivation, I would like to help humanity reduce its plastic waste bit by bit and with as little effort as possible. But I'm not trying to put down plastic. On the contrary: the aim is to find a clever way of dealing with the really useful plastic and to replace the superfluous with sustainable alternatives. This is the only way we can help ensure that future generations will also find a habitable planet.

      A look behind the scenes

      It's amazing how much the dazzling benefits of plastic kept us from seeing things clearly for more than half a century. Looking at an ordinary plastic cup, it becomes clear to me what a precarious situation we have maneuvered ourselves into: We prefer to pump the limited raw material oil out of the ground, transport the oil to the refinery, transform it into plastic cups at great expense, which are then delivered to retailers in practical 50-pack plastic packaging where they can be bought for little money, only to end up in a high arc next to plastic plates and plastic cutlery in the garbage at the next barbecue evening after five sips of sugar-sweetened lemonade. Instead, you could have just taken a reusable glass and washed it after grilling.

      It feels really great to use your imagination every now and then to

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