FAQ

Living Without Plastic

1. Is a life without plastic possible? 

It totally depends on how much you are willing to change your lifestyle to decrease your plastic use. To rid your life of all plastic completely is a real challenge considering things we make regular use of like phones and computers contain plastic. We believe in a do-your-best approach and encourage everyone to reduce plastic where they can.

2. Tips for living with less plastic

So glad you asked! You bet we do! There are lots of tips in the pages above this one in our Quick Start Guide menu. For more information, check out our blog here. Want to dive deeper? We published a book called 'Life Without Plastic: The Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Avoiding Plastic to Keep Your Family and the Planet Healthy'. This is the ultimate handbook for living a life with less plastic! Find it here.

3. If I need to use plastic, which ones are safer?

Excellent question. And we totally understand. While we firmly believe that all plastic leaches something - so in that sense no plastic is necessarily completely safe - we do understand that plastic currently plays some important roles in everyday life for many people, and is not going to disappear right away.  

Feel free to browse our Plastic Types section which will give you a solid overview of the most common plastics in everyday life - including which ones to seriously consider avoiding if at all possible.