Why is reducing plastic important?
Learning about the products which Lush sell which have no plastic made me want to look into why it is important for us as a whole society to reduce our plastic waste. Friends of the Earth state that every year the UK are using over 2 million tonnes of plastic packaging. Only 9% of all plastic waste has ever been recycled and 1 million plastic bottles are purchased worldwide every minute. The statistics are shocking.
Greenpeace explain why simply recycling plastics is not enough. They describe how plastic breaks down and tiny microbeads spread into the ocean. They get into our food chain and we are yet to discover what harmful effects will emerge from the toxins in the microbeads.
What can we do?
We, as in the whole world, need to stop using plastics which are non essential in order to help reduce the devastating effects which humans are causing on the environment. One of the ways which we can do this is to use products which have no plastic packaging. This is where the lovely people from Lush can really help.
Lush has a whole range of products which they call their naked range. The products include but are not limited to; facial soaps, cleansers, shampoo/conditioner, shower gel, bubble bath and massage bars.
How these products work
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