Biggest Barriers with Living a Plastic-Free Life
Barriers with living plastic-free can prevent people from making changes. Thorough knowledge and understanding will help you to overcome the barriers and pressures to living a sustainable lifestyle. It is crucial to understand that there are no one-size-fits-all for sustainable living. Personally, a sustainable lifestyle to me is constantly improving, not harming the environment, and living in harmony with creation.
You must decide for yourself the route you will take in your journey as everyone one’s wants, needs, knowledge, budget, household and living situation is different. Below are some of the barriers in the transition to sustainable living and some suggestions on how to overcome them.
1. Hard to Break Old Habits
Breaking habits and creating new ones is always difficult. Exercise these new commitments by saying them out loud, write them down or tell someone. Attach a new habit to something you already do. That is the easiest way to implement new habits into your everyday life. For instance, place your reusable bags near your house keys – to remember to bring your bags when you go shopping.
Join Facebook and social media pages to stay motivated in the new habits you have created!
2. Cost
Click here to check out how to reduce your plastic on a budget. Living plastic-free doesn’t have to be expensive, it is all about being creative and finding ways to utilise what you already own.
3. Uninformed
Education can be the biggest barrier in stopping someone from reducing their waste. Without a drive, there is no motivation to want to change. So go get informed, start googling and researching to find your reason why. It is important to see how this plastic epidemic is impacting your life from killing marine life, scientists finding plastic in our bodies and pollution affecting our waterways just to list a few.