With all the plastic film and toxic chemicals, dry cleaning clothes can be a wasteful process. You’ll likely end up with a surplus of wire hangers that meet the trash after a day’s use, too.
When it comes to creating less waste, there are some habits that are harder to break than others. Take paper towels, for instance. They’re so damn convenient—but this convenience comes at a price.
We are drowning the world in plastic. It washes onto our beaches, it sits entombed for centuries in landfills, it floats around the ocean in a cloud of microscopic particles twice the size of Texas. Most of it — 88% in Australia — never gets recycled. Recycling it still takes…