Plastic is forever
Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, except the small amount that has been incinerated, and has become toxic air and particulate pollution. (plasticpollutioncoalition)
Plastic is FOREVER! It doesn't just go away ever. And where it goes away? Do you ever wonder were it goes? It's easy to not think about it because it is not right in front of you. But really plastic pollution is in everything. Each day I will try to share a little fact at the beginning of my blog.
Yesterday, I decided I wanted to go to Dairy Queen to get a quick snack. My favorite thing there is the mint oreo blizzard and I always get extra oreos in it. But I was going through drive-thru and remembered that the blizzards are always handed out with a plastic spoons. In my efforts to reduce my plastic, I told the woman at the drive-thru that I did not need a spoon. She looked at me like I was crazy, as if she were thinking, how can she eat her ice-cream with her spoon?? I explained to her that I was just going home anyways. Then she asked, well would you like a lid for it then? Without thinking, I said yes and then instantly regretted it because I knew the lid would be plastic! In the end it was plastic, but when I got home, I just put it in the recycling bin. See how much you have to be aware?
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