WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT PLASTIC POLLUTION! AND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF!

I've read some articles and heard some radio broadcasts that say that drinking from plastic bottles or eating food from plastic containers (especially plastic film wrap and microwaving) result in PLASTIC IN OUR BODIES.  Fish are found with plastic in theirs.  It may be what's killing them.

So what are the things we can do NOW to cut the plastic pollution?

Number one is RECYCLING - putting plastics together to be sold for reuse or at least dumped together.  When I walk my dog, and I'm already stooping to pick up his poo, and I see bottles and cans laying around, I pick them up too.  Recycling puts some money in your pocket.

DON'T BUY DRINKS IN PLASTIC CONTAINERS - aluminum is better!  But think past the bottles to the big drinks that come in huge plastic containers and all those straws and lids.
If eating in a fast food restaurant you can drink without the straws and lids.  See if you can reuse a container many times or bring your own! 

BEWARE!  You should not leave plastic bottles in cars or windows or sunlight - the plastic starts leaching into the drink faster.

BUYING WATER?  GET A WASHABLE GLASS GALLON JUG instead of using the plastic.

DISHWASHING does use suds and water, but is probably more ecologically correct than landfills of plastic and seas of plastic.

BUY THINGS THAT BIODEGRADE faster such as shoes made of fabric or leather rather than plastic or vinyl. Same thing about purses and bags.

YES, reuse what you have.  You don't have to be a total cheapskate and use a bag till it falls apart but how about using it 3 times before you throw it away?

BUY BIODEGRADEABLE dog poopie bags and trash bags.

Don't throw clothes out in the trash.  Chop up the bad stuff to be used as rags, give the rest to charity for another go around.  (Cut off the buttons and reuse them!)

Save the plastic you bring home and give it to a school to be used for art projects.

TAKE YOUR ELECTRONICS to special recycling events or call your city trash pick up for those TV's and appliances.  Batteries?  Many libraries have used battery drop offs.

Lunch bags of paper or old fashioned metal lunch boxes!

Make your own GIFT WRAP or gently reuse the paper that you removed from your presents.  Also bows, etc.

Store leftovers and opened food in glass containers with lids in the fridge.