7 Ways to Cut Down on Single-Use Plastic When Grocery Shopping
1. Skip shopping bags and just reuse whatever bags you already own. “We use a plastic bag for an average of 12 minutes, but they take hundreds of years to break down in the landfill and only 1 percent are returned to the store for recycling,” Erin Augustine, corporate sustainability expert and founder of @carbonfreefamily on Instagram, tells SELF. “Reusable tote bags...