{"id":4405,"date":"2025-09-26T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:02:55","slug":"37-ways-to-reduce-your-plastic-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/37-ways-to-reduce-your-plastic-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"37 Ways to Reduce your Plastic Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we need to stop the production of plastic at its source. But in the meantime, less than 10% of plastic is recycled, leading to increased waste in landfills and oceans. To combat this, individuals can make simple, low-effort swaps in daily life\u2014such as avoiding plastic cutlery, bags, and other common items\u2014without needing to overhaul their routines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37 genuinely doable, low-effort ways to use less plastic<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/one5c.com\/use-less-single-use-plastics-137209229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/one5c.com\/use-less-single-use-plastics-137209229\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781642832358\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we need to stop the production of plastic at its source. But in the meantime, less than 10% of plastic is recycled, leading to increased waste in landfills and oceans. To combat this, individuals can make simple, low-effort swaps in daily life\u2014such as avoiding plastic cutlery, bags, and other common items\u2014without needing to overhaul&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/37-ways-to-reduce-your-plastic-consumption\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;37 Ways to Reduce your Plastic Consumption&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65,25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act-now","category-education","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4407,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}