What about plastic….

Putting it bluntly, plastic is bad… period!

Plastic comes from petroleum. When we buy plastic we are contributing to everything associated with the oil industry, including conflicts with other countries, oil extraction issues (like ANWR), oil spills, plus all the toxins and pollutants linked with refining the oil and turning them into products, besides the products themselves and what happens to them down the road. Even when plastic items can be recycled, toxins are often released in the process of making other products, and still involve everything associated with virgin plastic.

Besides supporting the petroleum industry for plastic to be made in the first place, we are hurting the environment and we are hurting ourselves. We don’t know how many diseases, including cancer, tissue and nervous system disorders…. are directly related to plastics and petroleum products in general… and at what point do they enter our bodies…. through the air, water supply, or directly…  Plastic chemicals have been found to actually migrate from the container to the food it is supposedly protecting!

Plastic is one of our biggest headaches, too, when it comes to liter.  Plastic takes hundreds or even thousands of years to decay. A small plastic soda ring, for example, can take 400 years to biodegrade and some, polystyrene foam (Styrofoam)  will never  decompose.

50% or more of marine litter is in some form of plastic.  It is estimated that over one million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from entanglement in or ingestion of plastics.

Can you say without a doubt, that that plastic bag, flying in the wind, heading to the ocean… is definitely not yours??

In todays society it is nearly impossible to avoid all plastic, but for many items, we do have a choice.

Think before you buy!