Tips to Use Less Plastic

Do you know that only 7% of the 30 million tons of plastic waste generated in the US in 2009 was recycled for recycling? There are 17 ways to reduce plastic waste.

Please also stop using plastic straws in restaurants. If you need to use a straw, please purchase a reusable stainless steel or glass pipette

Please use reusable agricultural bags. It may take 1000 years for a single plastic bag to deteriorate. Please buy or make your own reusable product bags and make sure they are cleaned frequently!

Buy a box instead of a bottle. Usually, products such as powder detergent are made of cardboard. This is easier to recycle than plastic.

Buy food from large boxes such as grain, pasta, rice and put it in reusable bags and containers. You save money and unnecessary packaging

Many restaurants use Styrofoam, so please bring your own takeaway container or dog bag of the restaurant

Because frozen foods are mostly plastics, please avoid purchasing. People who look like cardboard are coated with a thin plastic layer. Plus, you will eat less processed food!

Do not use plastic products at home, and make sure that the restaurant is not allowed to put them in a takeaway box.

Please return your local grocery store to your plastic container (fruit, tomato etc). If you shop in farmer market, they can add you

The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the US will throw out 6 billion pounds of disposable diapers each year. Let's reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of babies with diapers and save money

Instead of buying juice in a plastic bottle, make freshly squeezed juice or eat fruit. More healthy and environmentally friendly

Make a unique detergent with less toxicity, eliminating the need to use multiple plastic bottle cleaners

Place packages in reusable containers and bags. Also, choose fresh fruits and vegetables, and a large quantity of merchandise instead of a full one.

It is time to start cutting that plastic. This plastic contamination invasion and behavior kit is filled with tips and guidelines on how to minimize plastic consumption. The most important step that we can take is to limit the amount of plastic contamination to the ocean by first reducing the amount of plastic we consume. Recycling of plastic waste is important, but that alone is inadequate. Because you are planning to recycle plastic products you may think that you can use plastic products. Unfortunately, recycling is far from perfect so many plastics can not be effectively recycled, and whichever bin you use will ultimately enter the landfill. There are places where the infrastructure for separating and recycling plastic is lacking. Therefore, it is more important to focus on lowering your own plastic consumption level.

You may have been told that recycling is a solution to the plastic problem. However, plastic recycling is "not too bad" behavior. Plastics can only be recycled once, and materials that can not be recycled can be regenerated. In the United States, only 8% of products are in the process of recycling. The rest will eventually enter the landfill or become garbage, and a small part will be burned. (Plastic Pollution Alliance). Only not to use plastic is good for the environment. These are just a few of the plastic issues that directly affect us and our descendants. But like most environmental issues, even if you know the problem today, you can see how the problem gets worse in the future, cancel your daily life to adapt to this information It is difficult to do. This is difficult as you are used to things, and the motivation to find change is difficult.