Plastic Free Awesome List (WIP)

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Welcome

What are plastics and what does it mean to be plastic-free?

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers. Being ‘plastic free’ is eliminating plastics, whether it be for personal health reasons, environmental reasons, long-term costs, etc. This website also aims for silicone-free products as well.

Did you know?

Every bottle of water you drink, you consume 240,000 micro/nano plastics, which means you get ~58 micro/nano plastics in your eyes! About how many do you think for our brain? It’s about 50001! What about kidneys, liver, etc.?

It harms us at every stage of our lives, since infancy to adulthood.

It’s in every human testicles and may be linked to the global sperm crisis. It is also found in the placenta.

(PDF) Plastics are also endocrine disrupting chemicals.

… and so much more

How to use Plastic Free Awesome List

Use the search button to search for the product (category) you wish to buy. If it doesn’t show up, try synonyms, different tenses, or alternative words. Otherwise, try the ‘general’ section or the umbrella category. Please note that this is non-exhaustive, some information may be outdated, or the sellers themselves may have mislabelled their products. If you feel the products/brands are missing, please feel free to leave a message!

We give awards to products for your convenience of speeding up your product searching process, where each award indicates how ‘free’ the product is from plastic. All products listed in this Awesome List will have at least the brown heart award.

🤎 The ‘brown heart’ award means the core product is not made out of plastic and doesn’t go through plastic parts when used (e.g. spray). The core product does not include plastic (including polyester etc. threads) and will not shed plastic from touch or aging. This means there are no ‘99% cotton and 1% elasthane/polyester’ products.

🌸 On top of meeting the brown heart standards, the cherry blossom (or simply flower) standard means the core product you order is not made out of plastic, and the packaging, labels/tags, etc. are also not made out of plastic.

🌳 On top of meeting the flower standards, the tree standard means everything inside the package contains 0 to undetectable amount of (nano/micro-)plastic.

⭐ On top of meeting the tree standards, the star standard means no to undetectable amount of plastic was involved in creation, manufacturing, processing, logistics, and delivery of the product. For example, these products can be clean-room sealed, delivered via plastic-free sealed container attached plastic-free drones, expensive, etc.

FAQ

Uniqlo 100% supima cotton products are 100% cotton! Will you add them to this site?
A: Unfortunately, they come with a lot of plastic tags (for laundry label, material label, etc.), and it is unclear whether they use polyester or not for threading.

Is OEKO TEX 100 plastic free?
A: They can contain plastics, though minimal. There are OEKO TEX products that can meet brown heart or star label.

Are all products on this website plastic free?
A: There is a minimum standard at the ‘brown heart’ award, so make sure you are familiar with the standards, from brown heart to star. I also contact the shops/sellers for further clarifications and confirmations.

Acknowledgements

This website was inspired by Awesome-Selfhosted, which is a compiled resource for homelab/server application alternatives for SaaS/PaaS.

Also big credit to /r/PlasticFreeLiving.

  1. A bottle of water contains 240,000 micro/nano plastics, 90% of which are nano plastics. The average adult weighs 62kg. The human eye weighs about 7.5 grams, therefore 2 eyes = 15 grams. With the assumption that the micro/nano plastics we consume are equally distributed throughout the body, that means 58 micro/nano plastics end up in our eye. Similar math applies for the brain.↩︎