Use paper mushroom bags to transport loose fruit from supermarkets and grocers instead of plastic
Buy a butter dish so that you can purchase butter wrapped in greaseproof paper rather than in cartons. Likewise choose cheese which is wrapped in paper instead of plastic.
Leave packaging at the till. Make excess packaging a problem for supermarkets.
Swap single-use cigarette lighters for matches. Environmentalists are frequently finding plastic cigarette lighters in the stomach of dolphins, whales and birds.
Ditch plastic bottles and drink water from the tap. Buy a steel bottle to transport tap water. Metal carriers also stop chemicals from plastic leaching into water.
Source: Plastic Oceans Foundation