Improve the world, start with yourself :-) Sure, all of us must vote for the right party to save the climate. However, you are using hot water to do the dishes, right? And detergent is made and transported with the help of fossil fuels too. Now think how many households there are in your village, your town, your country; it’s massive. And, as you do the dishes, you can think about ways how you can protest against Big Industry - killing two birds with one stone, if you pardon the expression.

It's both sides. The industry ultimately just serves end customers and putting it all on them is just an attempt to shift the responsibility away from users. If people weren't buying all the meat, cars, electronics etc. the industry would disappear.

Here’s my sink, dishes awaiting attention. 😅 Look for Marseille soap, which comes in these 10-15 cm cubes. It might be available in organic or zero waste stores — which is why we started using it, low waste and avoiding moving water around.

I live in Copenhagen, which has very hard water and it’s fine. One block lasts about a year, but we have a dishwasher for most of our dishes. As a primary wash method I’d guess more like 3 months per block?