Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Plastic

I've kept cloth shopping bags in my car for a long time.  I try to remember to take them into the grocery story but many times I've had to go back to my car to retrieve them.  I believe we have too much plastic waste.  I'm glad most stores charge to get a bag.

The states of Hawaii and North Carolina have banned plastic bags, and states in Australia and India have done the same. Countries that have banned disposable plastic bags include Italy, China, Bangladesh, many countries in Africa including Rwanda, Kenya, the Congo, and South Africa.

I look in my fridge and see ketchup, mustard, mayonaise, seafood sauce, pickles, tartar sauce and even spaghetti sauce is now distributed in plastic containers.  Glass containers that are 100% recyclable are now gone and plastic has taken it's place.  Plastic recycling isn't as easy and you need an app to figure out what you can put in your recycle bin.  

So while we stopped plastic bags, that's a start but what about all the other useless plastic?

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