cut down on as much use of plastic as possible, single use and otherwise
-use own bags to carry shopping home
-take small textile bags to carry home loose vegetables, fruit
-don't buy plastic straws; turn down use in restaurants, encourage restaurants to use paper straws or none
-encourage complete ban on plastic shopping bags in Kingston
-encourage substituting purchase of plastic garbage bags with paper or compostable
-encourage stores to sell produce packaged only in non-plastic packaging, as a grocery franchise in Great Britain recently did successfully
-signed petitions to stores to discontinue plastic packaging
-store food/beverages in glass or tin containers
-purchase beverages in glass, none in plastic
-use metal water bottle, travel mug, food containers
-discontinue use of ziploc bags; substitute with cloth, metal containers, glass, wrap food in cloth covered with beeswax
-buy loose vegetables and fruit rather than bagged or packaged in plastic
-don't buy plastic plates, cutlery
-carry metal travel cutlery and use non-plastic lunch containers
-use bar soap, shampoo, conditioner rather than liquid in plastic
-use cosmetics in glass containers versus plastic
-replace plastic dental floss when have used up the plastic I own
-make own toothpaste rather than purchase in tubes
-don't buy soaps with beads in
-use metal ice cube trays versus plastic
-use metal bowls versus plastic when cooking
-store home items in baskets, cloth/wire containers versus plastic
-use/purchase wood versus plastic utensils
-use reusable/washable panty liners versus those with plastic
-buy cloth versus plastic shower curtains
-buy metal versus plastic shower curtain hangers
-purchase metal versus plastic garbage cans, waste paper baskets, home articles
-encourage others to read "Life Without Plastics" by Chantal Plamondon & Jay Sinha - has excellent easy to use suggestions
-recycle any plastic products that were unavoidable to purchase
-encourage donations to organizations helping with discontinuation of plastic use
-continue to live without plastic
-buy wooden toys versus plastic
-don't buy bottled water in plastic
-don't buy plastic footwear
-don't buy plastic purses, wallets, etc.
-buy second hand clothing; it will have already off-gassed, and involves no further use of chemicals, energy, in manufacturing more
-encourage return to selling beverages in glass bottles and reusing the bottles as done before - will also create jobs to wash/sterilize bottles prior to re-use
-find every way possible to avoid use of plastic and find alternatives at home, in hotels, restaurants, airplanes, trains, buses, stores