21 May 5 Apps that Help You Live Sustainably
Here are 5 tried-and-tested apps that aim to inspire you to live a life full of sustainable and ethical choices.
1. My Little Plastic Footprint
Think diet app, but plastic. Check your “Plastic Mass Index” or PMI and learn more about how you can reduce your plastic footprint. Go on a “plastic diet” using several sustainable options offered on the app. Download this app and work towards reducing your PMI.
2. Good on You
While fashion is used for self-expression, this industry also churns out pollution, waste, and exploits human rights. Good on You is an app that helps you discover ethical fashion brands and see where your favourite brands stand. The app rates brands based on their impact on people, the planet, and animals within.
3. JouleBug
With JouleBug, you can incorporate sustainable habits into your everyday life alongside your friends. You can discover and adopt sustainable lifestyle choices and earn fun badges. To make things more interactive, you can go green with your friends by challenging each other. It also helps people share their stories to inspire the ones around them.
4. Think Dirty
Makeup can be empowering for many. ThinkDirty gives you that extra sense of empowerment by helping you choose sustainable products. It allows you to learn about any toxic or unethical ingredients in all your cosmetics and toiletries just by scanning the items. The app also gives you cleaner alternatives.
5. Unwrapped UAE
Unwrapped UAE helps you make lifestyle shifts and provides you with the necessary information on plastic, recycling, clean eating, mindfulness, and more. The app also features blogs, showcases upcoming sustainable events, and helps you discover recycling centres near you. Unwrapped UAE aims to make your journey towards zero waste a fun and relatively easy one.
We need to stay conscious of our choices now more than ever. There is no one way to embrace sustainable living, and the journey is not an easy one. It requires commitment. However, nothing matches the feeling of knowing that your sustainable choices have a significant impact on the planet. So get downloading, and help make a difference today.
Reem is the content executive at plasticfreeuae and the go-to source for everything sustainable in the UAE who strongly believes that mindsets can be changed through words.
