Easy ways to become part of the solution to plastic pollution:
- Carry reusable shopping bags. Take them everywhere from the grocery store to the mall.
- Say adios! to bottled water (and other plastic packaged beverages)
- When dining out request no straw in your drink (you can even request no disposables)
- Carry a bag with reusables so you're not stuck using plasticware or styrofoam take-out containers
- Instead of single serving products (juice boxes, granola bars, fruit cups, chips, etc), buy the larger size with less packaging or learn to make your own! Check out my Plastic-Free Food
- Share what you're doing with others! Do you have a tip on how you use less plastic?
Let's get drastic about reducing plastic... because in today already walks tomorrow.
20 minutes on October 13, 2012 at Access 16
Cigarette butts: 132
Straws: 4
Total amount of cigarette butts removed from Wrightsville Beach, NC in 161 days:
51,098
Excellent work Danielle.....thank you for your dedicated efforts. Noah
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Noah! Thank you for being a WB resident that is actively engaged in making WB a better beach town :)
DeleteSo sad. I hate seeing all of those cigarettes on the beach. Thanks for the poignant post!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It used to make me sad, but it's hard to be sad when I'm focused on helping create change ;)
DeleteI do all the above. I also take any used plastic bag I get my hands on, usually from my neighbors' recycling bins, and use them for my trash. I haven't brought a plastic bag home in probably two years.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the hard work!
Awesome Laura! :)
DeleteWhat the....? This is just too much. Shame of multiflex for being so oblivious, clueless, or plain arrogant.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree!! Some nerve of Multiflex to post a comment touting their products... Plastic crap if you ask me ;)
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