tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381312513261620243.post4472267642357653758..comments2023-11-05T03:53:43.353-05:00Comments on It Starts With Me: Our Daily Ocean: Day 223Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16946726948266089329noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381312513261620243.post-25076264701063959652013-12-20T23:52:02.734-05:002013-12-20T23:52:02.734-05:00I completely understand how you feel Laura. It...I completely understand how you feel Laura. It's definitely hard as a parent knowing what we know.... sometimes it can feel so overwhelming. <br /><br />For me personally, I feel like if I'm at least doing something then that's being an active part of change (even if I am a minority). And maybe not everyone is paying attention, but trust me... if your doing things differently.... someone is going to notice and chances are they're going to get inspired :) <br /><br />As far as avoiding plastics, I have found that by skipping past the big grocery store and going instead to smaller locally owned stores to do my shopping that I am able to use less plastic and have in some sense more control over my abilities to live with less plastic. I'm definitely not 100% plastic-free, but as a family of 5 we fill an office sized trash can at the most maybe once a week. Right now, I can live with that. I don't know if you've ever taken the plastic challenge at My Plastic Free Life, but it's a really great exercise to help focus on what plastics we use but could avoid or possibly what we just can't live without. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16946726948266089329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381312513261620243.post-85832123311478147802013-12-14T10:35:47.238-05:002013-12-14T10:35:47.238-05:00My biggest frustration, now that I am trying to av...My biggest frustration, now that I am trying to avoid single use plastic and plastic in general, is how to succeed 100%, or close to it. Everything you buy in stores is packaged in plastic, I throw away about two bags of trash per week and inside is all wrapping that our municipality doesn't collect. At the stores I try to buy unwrapped alternatives but it is possible only sometimes. The other big problem I have is the awareness or lack of thereof in people. Unless it comes from the top I don't see how we can change the pervasive use of plastic. I surely hope that there is a smart chemist who is trying to develop alternatives to plastic or a way to recycle it in a sustainable way.<br /><br />Someday I feel panic thinking of the polluted world my children are living in, why is it that I am in the minority?Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15305773287880023217noreply@blogger.com