Happy Plastic Free July! This rainy day is a good time to start to highlighting my favorite plastic free swaps. • For morning coffee, I buy local beans in paper or foil bags when I can. Sometimes if the bags are lined in plastic, I reuse them for bulk items. I wish I could buy bulk beans in my own bag! Hopefully one day! I have a burr grinder to grind beans at home. I use a metal container to store the extra ground coffee. I use a pour over method to make my coffee. I boil my water in a pot on the stove, use a washable unbleached cotton coffee filter in a @martinathornhill ceramic pour-over to pour directly into my cup or a repurposed glass jar or more often both. I love my pour-over devise bc I can make up to 4 cups of coffee depending on the amount of beans I use. If I don’t drink all 4 cups I save the rest for the next day and reheat in the same pot. This method is an easy way to make iced coffee, too. Just pop the jar in the fridge to drink later. My spent grinds go right in the compost or get used in houseplants and blueberry bushes for the nitrogen it contains, which helps them grow healthy leaves and stems! • How do you make your coffee in the morning? Can you think of how to reduce the waste (plastic or otherwise) in this process? #plasticfreejuly #plasticfreetip #beachlife #beachtown #morningroutine #coffeeroutine #plasticfreecoffee #zerowaste #zerowastenj #reuserecycle #localcoffee https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlkqM1HfM3/?igshid=1g86sh954hwkr
