A Week Without Plastic

So the Less Plastic people posted about this Facebook challenge to go a week without buying any plastic. The week started yesterday, 4/23, and I did great that day. However, here it is mid-day of day two and I've failed. I just came back from the grocery store and because I bought ham and cheese at the deli counter I ended up with these pieces of plastic.

There is a win here. I completely forgot about the deli using plastic sheets for sliced meat but when I went to the butcher counter I was all prepared to ask them to not use a piece of plastic for handling my beef. But before I could get the words out the guy grabbed a piece of paper which you can see at the top of the picture. It's made a lovely addition to my compost bin.

Grocery stores are murder for this challenge. I did mange to buy food for three meals with only that small amount of plastic. I suppose had I been more on top of it I could have skipped the cheese this week (which seems silly) and asked the woman at the deli to slice into the butcher paper they wrap with. Lesson learned.