2019: That's a plastic free wrap!
/Wow, we can’t quite believe its the end of 2019, we’ve had such fun this year meeting and serving you all (yes, even in the terrible weather!), helping you to avoid single-use plastic packaging, and haven’t you done well! We love a fun round up of the plastics we’ve helped you avoid, so here it is:
An INCREDIBLE 38,032 pieces of single-use plastic avoided over the year!
This breaks down as avoiding 19726 pieces of single-use plastic packaging through refill shopping:
16873 pieces of single-use food packaging
1948 home cleaning plastic bottles
694 bathroom plastic bottles
On top of this you have also avoided 18306 single use plastic items, a few of our favourites are:
6453 individually wrapped dishwasher tablets avoided by switching to unwrapped Ecoleaf dishwasher tablets
3490 plastic tea bags avoided by switching to Westcountry Tea Co plastic free tea bags
694 plastic kitchen sponges avoided by switching to natural alternatives
128 single use plastic dental floss packets avoided by switching to refillable plastic free dental floss
at least 58 packets of plastic wrapped cotton wool pads avoided by switching to reusable bamboo pads
On top of this fantastic effort of reducing your plastic consumption, through our Terracycle recycling you have also recycled 2.7kgs of plastic dental care packaging and 2.4kgs of plastic stationery. We’ve still got plenty of room to recycle more so if you haven’t managed to switch to plastic free alternatives yet remember to keep hold of your plastic packaging once you have finished and bring it to the van for recycling, you can read more via this blog post.
And finally, through the sale of our 1 Tree Christmas Cards you guys have planted 58 trees in areas of deforestation! These cards have proved such a hit that we’ve decided to keep one design on year round - a beautiful present illustration that will make a great card for any occasion and we’ll also have various designs popping up throughout the year for special occasions.
So all in all, a great year! We want to take this time to thank you so much for your support and congratulate you on your efforts. We know that changing habits can be hard but you are all leading the way. By choosing to shop small and local and refill to avoid plastic packaging you are challenging the norm and bringing about larger changes to industry. There are now over 90 independently owned refill shops across the UK and the high street is starting to listen, with shops like the Body Shop returning to offering refill options and of course Waitrose looking to roll out its unpacked section to 3 more stores after a successful trial, they even reported this Christmas unpackaged brussel sprouts outsold plastic wrapped ones, change is happening!
Thank you for shopping with Incredible Bulk this year, wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year, we hope to see you soon!
