Whenever you decide to make a big lifestyle change, you can find yourself at odds with the people around you.
Decide to go vegan and you realise just how much meat and cheese your mates eat.
Stop drinking and it can feel like you’re the only person in the world who isn’t drunk.
Commit to cutting down on your plastic consumption and suddenly, the scales fall from your eyes and you start to see the grim reality of the situation.
Plastic is everywhere.
Four weeks into my Lenten promise to try to give up plastic, I went home this weekend for to spend some time with my parents.
Having grown up in a pretty green household (multiple compost heaps, avid recyclers, sell by date refuseniks), I didn’t consider how my plastic-free living would be challenged by going home.
An hour in, my dad came back from the supermarket with six plastic bottles of fizzy water.
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