Plastic Free July | Day 6

Plastic Free July

Day 6

Today for plastic free July we went and got some cereal from the Cooks Pantry with our own cereal box. This means you don't have to buy any of those plastic bags that the cereal comes in. The Cooks Pantry has these containers with scoops so you can take it yourself. You take your container up to the counter and they weigh it for you and see how much you can put in it. 

Then you go and find what you need and put it in your container. You then get it weighed again and then you pay. I really encourage you guys to do this because it saves another plastic bag. Did you know that the amount of energy/fuel (petroleum) used to create a plastic bag can drive a car 11 metres. That means that the amount of energy used to create 10 plastic bags could drive a car the length of a whole football field!

Below is an image of the bin that we took the cornflakes from at the Cooks Pantry.