What do you do with used pens and plastic toothbrushes? Even if you separate used items properly, most don’t get recycled, but little by little, collection and recycling technologies are increasing in Japan.

This month's pick up is Plastic Free July!

Plastic Free July is a campaign led by the Plastic Free Foundation. Their vision is a world without single-use plastics. Every year in July, millions of people around the world take up the single-use plastic-free challenge.

What alternatives are there?

Striving to be living (almost) plastic free.

Choose to Up Cup! Bring - Borrow - Stay

Let's take the challenge. Stop single use!

For this year’s Plastic Free July month, we have been sharing our challenges with you. Although the one month challenge is over, we are definitely all going to continue. How did we do the last 2 weeks and how was the entire month?

The first two weeks is Challenge #1; how did we do? There were some epic fails here and there but no one can be 100% perfect from the beginning right?  Live and learn! And what did we decide to do for Challenge #2?

PLASTIC FREE JULY CHALLENGE!

We have been consciously adopting a plastic-free life every day, but for this year's Plastic Free July month, we've decided to share our challenges with you; we hope this can inspire more to take the challenge!

Every year in July, more than 120 million people around the world takes the Plastic Free July challenge. Why not give it a try? Pick the challenge and duration that fits your lifestyle and try it out! Do what you can, together we can make a difference and be a part of the solution.