With the UK governments plans to ban all single use cutlery including forks, cups and plates I’m bringing you the best plastic free reusable alternatives.
What’s the problem with single use plastics?
Single use plastic is part of our daily lives, whether it’s at work with a takeaway coffee, at home with disposables for parties or out and about, think plastic spoons and forks for food.
More than half of all single use cutlery is thrown away and not recycled. This ends up as litter, destroying natural habitats and endangering wildlife, or filling up landfill which is often incinerated causing toxins to release into our atmosphere and cancerous components into the air we breathe.
Pollution doesn’t just come from the end of use, but production of single use plastics requires energy from fossil fuels resulting in carbon emissions during production and transportation.
Plastic has well and truly reached every part of the world most shockingly the arctic where microplastics have been found in the snow.
The Best Reusable Products
Get prepared for the ban with Between Green Boxes – you’ll receive all the best reusables below and our best-selling reusable cotton tea bags for a plastic free brew any time of day all for just £20 including p&p – that’s less than the cost of a week worth of meal deals!
Ditching pre-made sandwich packets and plastic bags, foil or film on your lunch in favour of reusable sandwich wraps like these made by Eco Snack Wrap (based in Norwich, UK) will also save you money, not only from scratching sandwich bags off your shopping list, but also encouraging you to take food from home. With its hemp material and Velcro fastening it keeps any contents, from sandwiches, wraps and snacks, safe and secure.
Say no to plastic and paper straws and yes to your handy silicone straw in its handy travel tin. Even the resources to make paper straws are a waste; no one likes a soggy straw! So keep yours handy in your pocket or bag.
Grabbing some food to go? Use your reusable cutlery including fork and spoon and forget about snapping plastic as you tuck or that feeling when you taste the wood of the fork more than your meal.
Get prepared for the ban with Between Green Boxes – you’ll receive all the reusables above and our best-selling reusable cotton tea bags for a plastic free brew any time of day all for just £20 including p&p – that’s less than the cost of a week worth of meal deals!
