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Synopsis:

In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in the city of Perth, the Plastic Free July movement has grown into a 250-million strong community across 177 countries, empowering people to reduce single-use plastic consumption and create a cleaner future.

Review:

I always try to think of ways that I can reduce my negative impact on the environment so when this book came, I knew that I had to review it.

I didn’t even know Plastic Free July was a thing, but now that I do, I can promise you that I will be taking this on every July and making more of an effort for every single month of the year.

What I loved is the efforts that the authors went through when they decided to take on this challenge and what every day issues that they came across in every day situations which made the whole process of moving to plastic free realistic. At one put they decide to take a road trip and they forgot to pack snacks, so usually in this situation you would stop off at a servo (petrol station) and get snacks. But what snacks can you buy in a servo that doesn’t have plastic on it? You can’t! One of the biggest problems is that all food comes in plastic and how can you buy food without plastic?? SO she went without snacks because they weren’t available.

It is honestly crazy to think about how much plastic there is in our lives and that only 9% of the plastics in the world get recycled!! If that doesn’t freak you out, then nothing will!

While I loved the lengths they went to sharing stories and experiences, I was hoping for more examples of how we can go plastic free and places that you can go grocery shopping without buy plastic.

I think this was a great starting point to introducing a plastic free option but I think I might have to look at other books for a hardcore option.

Rating: 4.5/5

Publisher: NewSouth Book

ISBN: 9780231552721