Selwyn_Times: July 19, 2023

22 Selwyn Times Wednesday July 19 2023
SELWYN RURAL LIFE
Advertising Feature
Avoiding plastic – rural
households leading the way
• By Isabelle Teresa
We’re mid-way into plastic-free July,
a campaign that began in Australia in
2011 and now inspires 100+ million
participants in 190 countries. It
advocates for the end of single-use
plastics. With great synchronicity, from
1 July single-use plastic produce bags
were banned from NZ supermarkets, in
a move expected to remove 150 million
bags from circulation every year.
Why am I telling you these things?
Well, because you may not have noticed
– and that’s a good thing.
Rural households are better placed
than most to avoid single-use plastic.
After all we’re not typically buying
take-out food and drinks each day on
the way to the office. We can’t just pop
by the supermarket for small amounts
of groceries when it’s so far away. Fastfood
delivery?! Forget it! We’re probably
already buying in bulk, and relying on
large storage and fridge/freezers. And,
crucially, growing our own.
These are all smart habits. Townies
got a reminder of them too, during
lockdown.
Being intentional about how you shop,
and how often, leads to great unexpected
savings – not only in money, petrol, and
the amount of packaging to deal with,
but also savings in time.
For example, for years bulkfood
stores encouraged people to BYO
containers, and usually give discounts
for this. Supermarkets used to site
hygiene concerns, but now embrace the
approach. The time-saving reward for
people shopping like this is that you get
home and there’s no double-handling
because of packaging – straight from the
car onto the shelf. Bonus!
A sobering exercise is to monitor
your rubbish and recycling bins for a
month. How can you avoid getting the
things you’re putting in there? If there’s
some items that you just can’t source
in another way, use consumer power
– email the manufacturer and retailer
about their packaging.
You could also check out the plasticfree
July website, an excellent source
of resources, with categories of tips
for work, school, events, business,
community and local government, as
well as how to get started at home.
One category that’s not there, is rural
households. That’s because we’re already
one step ahead.
Re-filled containers:
out of the car, onto
the shelf
A brief history of NZ
supermarket bags
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