Create a shopping list with head
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Making a shopping list is one of the most universal everyday activities there is, and it is also one of the most often done automatically, without thinking too much about it. This results in overspending. However, in recent years there have been a number of campaigns that are basically summarized in the phrase "no single-use plastic" and that seek not only to rationalize the purchase but also reduce in the shopping list those products that are packaged in plastic.
No single-use plastic
Today, most purchases are made in large supermarkets where there is a tendency for products to be over-packaged. Plenty of plastic-coated vegetable trays, aluminium-wrapped dishes, plastic juice containers and, if that were not enough, the ever-present plastic shopping bags survive, which are not disappearing even now that a law requires them to be collected.
This massive packaging system has two problems:
- It generates industrial quantities of non-biodegradable waste.
- It tends to direct the consumer towards a less responsible consumption, as it does not allow him to regulate his purchase properly. It has happened to all of us: there is something on offer, we want to take a couple of units, but we can't, because it is packaged four by four or six by six, with 2 kilos of plastic around it.
Therefore, a responsible purchase involves avoiding this type of packaging and recovering the traditional style of consumption, which involves choosing vegetables and fruits one by one, buying meat and fish at the corresponding counter, by kilos or pieces, and prefer biodegradable packaging to plastics, in addition to rejecting the shopping bag. This will allow you to adjust your shopping list to what you need and not what the store wants you to buy.
