Have you signed up for Plastic Free July? The idea of Plastic Free July is to try for a month to actively avoid single-use plastic. You can sign up for the whole month, or just a week, and you can avoid all single-use plastic or just the TOP 4 challenge (plastic bags, plastic water bottles, takeaway coffee cups & plastic straws). This post contain affiliate links from Biome , as well as advice from my personal experience. You don't need to buy a whole lot of things to reduce your plastic consumption, there are many things that you can make yourself, I just suggest a few of the items that have helped us and may help you too. Why Plastic Free July? Plastic is designed to last forever, but when we use it for "disposable" items they do not biodegrade and end up polluting waterways or filling landfills. Each of us can make a difference by just reducing (or aiming to eliminate) single-use plastic from our daily lives. Three reasons to avoid single use ...