Some Plastics are Just Too Ridiculous
A shocking 91% of all plastics – including 80% of all plastic bottles – are never recycled. (See “The Truth About Recycling” under “Climate“)
The plastics industry actually wants you to throw plastic bottles away… and feel good about it. They have spent decades and billions making you believe plastics get recycled.
The truth is only 10% of platics get recycled, and even flimsy plastic bottles will take an estimated 450 years to break down in a landfill.
Some use of plastic is more egregious than others like itsy-bitsy 8-ounce bottles – exactly one measuring cup or 5-6 generous gulps of water.
The average person drinks from an 8 ounce bottle for 5-10 minutes. That bottle will remain on earth for half a millennium.
See The Truth About Recycling for more information
Why Buy Plastic Net Bags…
… when they are free at the grocery store? All sorts of produce comes prepackaged in mesh bags, which are made of plastic. Why throw them away. And then, perhaps, buy more?
See Eco-Cool Kids for a fun project that will keep little hands busy stringing a drawstring through the netting for a pretty reusable bag.
No little hands? Simply drop the empty net bags into your shopping bags and use them with twisty ties at the store, instead of one-use plastic bags.
They are fairly durable, more so than the plastic produce bags on rolls, so they can be reused for quite a long time before they end up in the landfill. (NO, they are not recyclable.)
You can actually buy 1,000 plastic net bags for about $100. Why? Save yourself some money and the planet some pain: DO NOT ADD TO CART!
