Soap in plastic containers. Slowly making the change, just recently swapped our dish soap for the bar soap ones and honestly it's so much easier to maneuver. Instead of needing both hands to pump the soap you just need one hand to rub the sponge on the soap, win-win!

Anonymous wrote:Anything that goes into a birthday goodie bag

Yes - I hate all the plastic crap in goodie bags!

Those little plastic sword toothpicks that come in cocktails.

The excessive packaging around items that are already plastic! I'm looking at you, Costco.

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Anonymous wrote:Produce wrapped in plastic. Why do cucumbers come individually wrapped??

This drives me nuts. I think they go bad faster like this, too.

Cucumbers are individually wrapped in plastic cling wrap to prevent it shrinking and becoming limp in the fridge. You need to consume them in a few days, less than a week.

Disposable plates, cups, silverware
Individual plastic bottles
Plastic grocery bags
Glade plug ins
Disposable razors
Individual dental floss picks
Milk and juice bottles
All bottles used for food products and medicines

Anonymous wrote:You know what is really great that is plastic? This little plastic carrying loop they put on paper towel and toilet paper packages in Europe. So convenient and saves a bag to already have a handle o the package itself. Why don’t we have that in the states?

Also, garbage bags are sold in a roll. No cardboard packaging. So efficient.

I worked retail at CVS and Crate & Barrel in the 90s and we definitely had these both places.

Anonymous wrote:Produce wrapped in plastic. Why do cucumbers come individually wrapped??

This drives me nuts. I think they go bad faster like this, too.

Anonymous wrote:plastic food storage containers

I hate plastic but I've actually found it very hard to get rid of plastic storage containers entirely. For food, glass containers are too heavy and metal containers too heat sensitive. My kid's lunch box is plastic and we hold on to a variety of plastic storage containers for snacks and things because putting a glass container in my backpack to haul around all day is so heavy (plus what if it breaks). And we continue to use plastic storage in our pantry because it's so convenient -- you can easily see what is in the container.

I've done a good job of reducing my plastic use in a lot of ways, but I have just not found the alternatives for food storage to meet my needs.

The list of plastic we don't need is endless. A shorter answer is probably what plastic we do need, and I'd say plastic used for medical reasons.

plastic food storage containers

The little plastic window on cardboard box foods. I high quality photo would do.

Milk containers

Clamshells
They need to go back to the same paper as egg-carton material that we had when I was a kid.

Anonymous wrote:plastic forks spoons knives

use metal and wash

We use them to scrape cat litter out of the box, so that’s a no from me.