3. So The Main Question Is………
Who is responsible for this???
To know the answer ………
4.
5. So What Will Happen…..
…….After Many Years If everything goes like
this……
6. Did you know ?????
Plastic needs about 450 years just to start
decomposing. Then, it takes another 50-80
years to decompose completely.
Want to know more facts????
Let me tell you some more facts!!
7. 1.Even 40% of the total house plastic waste of average American
family is due to the use of plastic bottles.
2.Another interesting fact about plastics and your money: 90%
of the price you pay for the bottled water goes to the plastic
bottle, while the water cost you only 10% of the money you give.
3.The average American buys 167 bottles of water per year,
avoiding using any alternatives.
4. 24 million gallons of oil are needed for producing of billion
plastic bottles.
5. Only 25 recycled bottles are enough to make one adult’s
fleece jacket.
8. So What Can We Do!!
1. Eat fresh foods. Here’s an idea…drastically reduce or eliminate all processed foods.
Not only is it better for your health, but better for the environment. The less processed
foods we eat, the less waste we throw away with paper and plastic packaging.
2. Start toting around a stainless steel or even better, glass water bottle.According to
the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, we (and by we I mean
Americans), purchased 31 BILLION bottles of water in 2006. Sad to say that only 10% of
that 31 billion was recycled. Which means that nearly 28 billion water bottles are floating
around in our landfills. Using a resuable stainless steel or glass water bottle that you fill
with properly filtered water is an easy, economical and sustainable way to drastically cut
down on plastic consumption.
3. Bring canvas bags to the grocery store. One of the easiest and most convenient ways
to cut down on plastic bag and paper bag consumption. In some countries, like Japan,
stores will actually charge you a small fee to use plastic bags, a practice I feel we should
adopt to help encourage the use of canvas bags.
4. Skip on putting all your produce in those little plastic baggies. This is huge source of
waste that I don’t think most of us even pay attention to. If you’re anything like me, the
majority of your groceries are veggies and fruit. And just think about how much plastic we
waste by putting a couple of apples, a tomato and a cucumber in one of those little
baggies. Put your produce directly into your canvas bag while you shop. But, don’t forget
to thoroughly wash your produce when you get home, especially since they’ll be sitting
naked on the conveyor belt.
5. Choose paper or glass packaging over plastic packaging. Buying eggs? Choose the
cardboard egg carton over the plastic. Laundry detergent? Buy the cardboard box over the
plastic dispenser. Soap? Choose bar soap over liquid in bottles.
9. 6. Replace your tupperware with glassware containers. Glass containers are so much
cooler than tupperware for many reasons 1) You’re not as likely to lose a glass container
than you are a cheap plastic one. 2) You can cook, store and reheat in a glass container. 3)
They don’t stain like plastic tupperware if you put spaghetti sauce in it. 4) No icky toxic
chemicals will leak into your food.
7. Forget buying another bottle of lotion. Use coconut oil (sold in a glass bottle, of
course) for a skin moisturizer instead. Coconut oil is a safe, natural and chemical and
paraben free moisturizer. Gently melt a tablespoon in a small saucepan and use as an
overall body moisturizer. Here’s a link to my favorite brand of coconut oil by Tropical
Traditions
8. Buy in bulk and bring in your own papers bags or storage containers if you can.Not
only does buying in bulk save a ton of money, but you also cut down on unneccsary
plastic packaging. Nuts, beans, rice, spices and legumes are items that are great buying in
bulk.
9. Choose wax paper or glass containers instead of Ziplock baggies. Pretty self-
explanatory.
10. Use brown grocery bags instead of plastic garbage bags for your trash. There
probably isnt’ a house in America that doesn’t have a pantry, closet, or storage space
filled with folded up brown paper bags. Instead of buying the white plastic garbage
bags, make use of the pile of old grocery bags to line your trash cans instead.
