Refuse -- the new 'R'
The '3 R's' are great but sorely lacking a fourth -- 'Refuse.' Plastic Pollution Coalition's launch event featured a S.U.P.E.R. Hero pledge to 'just say no' to single-use plastic. Here's Jackson Brown pledging ...
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I never do it, and never will.
I hope you don't have kids because they wont have anything when they are older if you keep this attitude
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I'm all for eliminating plastic bottles. It horrendous to have so much waste ending up in our environment. However, it strikes me as a huge missed opportunity to focus this on bottled water. What about sugar drinks which also cause obesity and all the addendent health problems? Most of those are delivered in plastic bottles. Why are these untouchable? Seems like a more important target to me.
This attack also glosses over the problems many municipalities.... More
The US post office should quit subsidizing junk mail, which often winds up in the garbage unread and only multiplies the trash thrown away.
You can get a reusable bottle or use your own cups. There is also a company, Primo, that sells bottled water but they do not make the bottles from petroleum. The bottles are made from plants. I'm not trying to advertise this but if I have to use a plastic water bottle(s), I buy them. Check it out - primowater.com
Blatant advertising + disclamer = FAIL!
With almost 7 billion people on the planet the throaway culture is never going to work, whether disposables are made our of petroleum or, as you kindly put it, from "plants" (GMO corn in most cases, yuk) . Bottled water SUCKS, primo included. Boo!
I always thought that recycling plastic was a good thing. Now you're telling me plastic is bad?? I guess I'll have to go with all those little paper cups instead.
Did you know plastic containers aren't made from new oil at all! They are made from an oil by-product, not virgin oil. That means instead of disposing leftover oil, it's made into useful, light-weight plastic, which has many social benefits and is easily recycled.
it would be, but plastic is alway contaminated with other materials (print, plastic of a different make up as cap or wrapper). this makes recycling impossible. in order to use it (e.g. for making a new bottle) the industry needs its resources to be as pure as possible, otherwise it will not have the desired traits. basically most recycling schemes are a fake operation to make the consumer feel better about their wastefull livestyle, sorry.
Recycle your old cell phones for free! just go to HaveURebooted.com for a mail in label or drop off location.
