Plastic how can I stop?

Try to buy less stuff in plastic. Put your plastic in recycling. Voice your concerns with the manufacturer.

No one's perfect, every little bit helps. At least that's what I tell myself.

Thank you R1 I recycled last week. I want to stop drinking beverages from plastic too.

Bottled water is the worst.

I look for things I need in glass, cans or paper. I buy eggs in cardboard cartons, and I save those thin plastic bags used for produce and reuse them at the store when I need vegetables or fruit.

As if ANYTHING you did would affect the oceans. Get over yourself, cunt.

Change your tampon, R5.

Why the hostility, R5?

If you were a frau, OP, you'd already know about Bea Johnson and how to have a plastic-free, zero waste home. She has 350,000 followers on social media!

If you really care about plastic pollution, stop buying anything from China or India, the countries provide the bulk of the plastic refuse that ends up in the sea.

Buy a 4ocean bracelet? might take away from your plastic guilt.

You can melt it and have some doctor inject it into your body!

Stop shopping at Walgreens or any store that continues handing out millions of plastic bags every day.

Paper bags don’t hold up to wet garbage.

It's too late. You not using plastic isn't going to help. Can you get everyone to stop? If you can't than your efforts will be in vain.

It's like saying I will throw a glass of water on the house fire. It won't help put out a house fire. So you can throw a thousand glasses on it, it won't put it out. You need a thousand people throwing glasses. Do you have hundreds of million people agreeing to do this? No? Then why bother.

And don't give me that bullshit "If everyone did..." crap. "If" means "IF" and since that isn't applicable it carries no value.

Here you go, OP. Have fun!!

Stop buying cheap crap. Plastic is the cheapest materiel to may anything out of from a bottle to a chair. You can buy cloth or canvas shopping bags for 1 dollar at most grocery stores. Use glass instead of disposable containers for food. Stop using straws and drink from a glass like an adult.

If they hadn’t banned hemp this would be a non-issue.

R14, we've got to try. Change has got to start somewhere even if it's woefully late. Buy glass, aluminum or things in paper. Tell waiters you don't need a straw. Get a stainless steel water bottle. Bring your own cup for coffee to go. Get some bamboo utensils to store in your glove compartment or bag to eat on the run. Get reusable grocery and produce bags. Try to buy things that are better made and will last longer, even if it is more expensive. Try to repair things or buy second hand. Avoid buying things that maybe cute and cool, but are just plastic junk in the long run.

It won't be perfect and it won't be easy, but as you change your mindset and get used to thinking about it, you'll get better.

The oceans have so much plastic junk and it’s hurting the sea life.

r14 is too fatalistic. You make the difference in YOUR life, OP, and the repercussions will be there.

Most of us will never know if we make a difference but by god it is your duty to get the fuck up every day and TRY!

The straws are horrible. No more straws! We have lips, a throat to swallow with.

I never recycle anything but I’m starting to do so.

For bottles if you do not have access to good tap water them Brita water filer bottles are a great choice.

I think we need to do our part but where the fuck is science and industry? By now, knowing what we know there should be a biodegradable version of plastic in the market place or a plastic alternative.

R24 I agree with you. They need to stop making so much plastic.

I bought a set of five nylon bags that I use when I grocery shop. They are washable, too.. as the bags can get a little gross, after so many uses. I got them through Amazon, which has other types of bags, too. I'll have to be more mindful about food packaging. I don't always do that. I recycle when I can. I'm trying to get this more into my conscious.

I also use silicone and metal straws...washable and reusable.

I think they need to go after those industries who are dumping into the oceans in the first place. You and I using plastic straws and throwing them away to go in landfills is a problem, but not the ocean problem. They're missing the mark here.

You "finally" care about the ocean? What were you doing before, working up your nerve?

Stop using plastic hypodermic needles.

Snort your smack instead.

How are you gonna carry your grocery bags in the rain in they are made of paper? They are gonna charge 5 cents for shitty paper. Fucking cunts. I like plastic bags, I reuse mine all the time.

R31 buy reusable cloth bags! They sell them everywhere now!

R32. cloth? How is it gonna hold up? Doesn't sound like it can hold heavy items well.

Get a gorgeous wicker basket, R33

Great scene from the movie "The Graduate" circa 1967. Friend of the family calls Ben aside at his college graduation party and says he has one word for him - "plastic". Can we reverse 50 years of insanity? Recycle everything you can. Refuse bags both paper and plastic and bring reusable bags.

Keep your laws off my Tupperware.

Combined, all of the real Housewives have more plastic in their bodies than in all of the plastic bottles produced in one year.

Flour, cereals, pasta can all be weighed and purchased in your own glass containers in some grocery shops or at food markets. Hot beverages to go can also be served into your personal container. Usually it's no problem.

I drink water from a metal flask that I carry everywhere.

Everything R18 said + get your own glass containers for cereal, flour, rice, pasta, dried fruit... It works.

I've also decided to boycott Forbes 40. That is everything from everyone on that list. They don't need a cent from me, and they need to pay their taxes so that every citizen can access quality healthcare and education.

R31 is an idiot, anyone can use those so-called "tote" bags (textile) to go grocery shopping, who needs plastic anyway.

YEP R35.

You guys must be shopping at health food stores or fancy niche markets. Almost all my food comes in plastic of some form. I don't have the option of using glass containers for pasta or cereal.

[quote] It's too late. You not using plastic isn't going to help. Can you get everyone to stop? If you can't than your efforts will be in vain. It's like saying I will throw a glass of water on the house fire. It won't help put out a house fire. So you can throw a thousand glasses on it, it won't put it out. You need a thousand people throwing glasses. Do you have hundreds of million people agreeing to do this? No? Then why bother. And don't give me that bullshit "If everyone did..." crap. "If" means "IF" and since that isn't applicable it carries no value.

Fuck this. I understand that it seems daunting and pointless, but I refuse to make this issue worse.

R21 your lips are meant for bitching and sucking, that's all.

Really? What’s wrong with plastic?

As an elder gay, I remember the days when everything you bought was put in a paper bag, no matter how small or large.Plastic hadn't been developed yet that was not biodegradable. When it became available to use we all thought-- like in the Graduate-- it was wonderful but now has turned into an environmental nightmare!

Hospitals are the worst about plastic, imo.

Everything is disposable and wrapped in plastic. It's disgusting how much is thrown away after one use. They don't even reuse blood pressure cuffs anymore, FFS! Those are disposable plastic as well.

Madness!

I know someone already mentioned this.. but, can't a plastic type bag be invented that is biodegradable? I'm sure that solution exists, but the cost is too high.

Those nylon shopping bags are surprisingly strong. I've put in heavy milk/juice cartons, cans, gallon laundry detergent, etc... and filled them up. They are heavy to carry, but nothing is breaking through or ripping.

I carry a super nice glass with silicon to go cup with me everywhere, Starbucks, anywhere. I try to only use possibly one take out cup a week, or none.

I sometimes carry a glass container and ask to weigh it when using it for take out foods.

R34 = Sebastian Flyte

Cereal belongs in a GLASS CANISTER!

Not only is it visually appealing, you can see if they cheated you out of raisins.

R49, they are developing cellulose film for packaging that is compostable.

Reuse your rubbers.

Bless you, OP, for caring and making an effort.

Support local efforts and set an example in using reusable and biodegradable things. Especially if you're attractive. Everyone will copy you.

They should make an international global “Pick up Trash Day!” It could bring awareness to plastic pollution.

I don’t recycle because I’m not sure if some items are recyclable and if I need to wash it.

R51 where did you buy your silicone glass cup.

R60... Check Amazon.

I’m just glad I’m 49 and don’t care about the future of the environment. I don’t reuse or recycle.

I think we could pay more taxes to have ever better recycling and very interesting results from incineration. It doesn't all need to end up in oceans. A grocery chain just offered to build an enormous many many acre greenhouse to grow peppers in the winter and the local Greens had a conniption fit, somehow. The peppers would be organic and not polluted - they just get the heat from the incinerator -- but the Greens blocked it.