Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? Why should you care? Disposable plastic items don’t biodegrade. They just…
Category: Plastic-free living
Global Plastics Ban
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why haven’t the governments of the world come together to ban or limit the production of plastics globally like they’ve done to reduce ozone depleting chemicals in the 1980s and greenhouse gasses more recently? — Peter B., Wallingford, CT Plastic, originally hailed for its…
Unmasking the Problem
More about reducing plastic pollution can be found in these posts. EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard that PPE waste is a growing environmental burden these days. Is anyone working on ways to solve this problem? — B. Jackson, Jewett City, MD From healthcare workers and teachers,…
If you can’t reuse it, refuse it
Inspired by Susan Freinkel’s book Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, I’ve set a goal to reduce the amount of single-use plastic I bring into my life in 2020. Here’s my collection for the second month of the year. February plastic Much like the previous month, February brought me a pile of food wrappers and a Better…
“The world is changed by your example.”
The month of March turned our world upside-down, didn’t it? Self-isolating became the way of life we never imagined would happen to us. Despite having been shopping only once all month-before the country went into shut-down-I managed to accumulate about the same amount of single-use plastic trash as always. And it continues to be food…
Do something drastic – cut the plastic!
Inspired by Susan Freinkel’s book Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, I’ve set a goal to reduce the amount of single-use plastic I bring into my life in 2020. Here’s my collection for the first month of the year. That’s a bag full of food packaging at the top. In fact, you’ll see that most of it…
