One Blogger’s Quest to Avoid Plastic

I recently read a blog from a woman who took a week long challenge to go throughout each day without acquiring any new disposable plastic. Her results are typical. It’s actually really hard not to use some sort of disposable plastic day to day. Actually, her efforts are quite commendable. She went two days out of seven without her herself using any new plastic, but she attributed that to not really buying anything on those days, and couldn’t really avoid the plastic that her kids brought into the house from outside sources. She noted that the main culprits are plastic bags used in packaging items, like in the supermarket, which are pretty much unavoidable. Marshmallows, for example, whether you choose to take them home in a plastic bag, paper bag, or reusable bag, they still come in plastic packaging. So many other little avoidable pieces of plastic are noted in her blog as well, plastic straws, plastic caps, swim goggles and other small toys that kids use until they grow out of, and then throw them away. Grocery shopping is inevitable, and the reuseable non woven bags are helpful only if you remember to bring them. Sure, you could buy less on a day to day basis, but then where does that leave our already slumping economy? Using paper bags is an option as well, but then we’re back to square one, with deforestation issues, and the environmentally harmful effects of their production as well. The fact is, it’s cheaper to produce plastic retail bags, and it costs more to recycle them than making new ones. So maybe it is unavoidable to acquire plastic someway or another. But I can admire those of us who are aware and actually try. As Trudy so wisely stated, “I can’t say I managed to avoid plastic for a week. But the experience of trying to do so made me much more aware of what passes through my hands and how much of it I can (and can’t) control.”

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