Learning to Live With(out) Plastic - 51°05' 03" N 115° 22' 07" W
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After seeing the amount of plastic floating the seas during our sailing adventures through Asia, we made a conscious effort to reduce the amount of plastic in our day-to-day lives. Moving into our new home in Canmore in June 2018 was when we started to get serious. We endeavour to make purchases based on packaging: avoid clam shells for produce and bakery items, when we can; eat English cucumbers that are not plastic wrapped like their European cousins and search out different products to replace single-use plastic. So how are we doing? Rather well in some areas and very poorly in others. These are some of the things we do: Reusable grocery bags - very normalised to take your own bag these days but sadly, not everyone does. Taking our produce loose or in reusable bags. Using a travel mug - if we have one then we can reward ourselves with a coffee/hot chocolate. If we don't, then it is just bad planning and we have to forgo that caffeine hit. Wax wraps, snack bags and T