Make your own fruit juice

Fresh fruits hanging from a boat

Fruit juice often comes in single-use plastic containers. Avoid this plastic by making your own at home!

In the UK, 31.5% of fruit juices are packaged in plastic, while 66.9% come in "asceptic carton" which has a layer of plastic or foil inside making it challenging to recycle.

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Benefits

  • Easy to customise to include your preferred fruits and flavours
  • Fresher!

Challenges

  • Less convenient
  • Can be more expensive depending on your fruit choices!

Making a difference

Aaccording to a study by Paymentsense, sales of fruit juice in plastic bottles in the UK have fallen.

There are hundreds of other ways to solve plastic pollution

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Photo Credit: Eleanor Church