Plastic Rant (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡

This morning my colleague sends me an article called “11 easy ways to reduce your plastic waste today”. I read it. It makes me angry.

You’re probably wondering, why would something like that make me angry? Well, think of it this way – how sad of a planet we’ve become that we have to try so hard to educate each other on reducing waste. We’ve let this problem become SO big that just now we’ve realized we have to back track. When everything is starting to change – climate, our ecosystem, land and ocean – just now do we realize we have to start making a difference. Ugh, frustrating.

The first tip in the article is “bring your own shopping bag” and my first thought was why the hell do we have plastic bags in the first place? Who invented that? A. they should be shot and B. are we really all to stupid to figure out hey, I can put groceries in literally ANYTHING else.

This doesn’t just go for plastic bags. Take a second; actually take numerous seconds because it’s going to take you that long to think about all of the items in this world that are made of plastic. Now if you think a little bit harder, how many of those items can be made from something else, something more environmentally friendly? I’m going to place a bet on probably almost everything.

So what can we do?

These products have already been made, there’s no turning back from that. Just do us all a favour and throw away as many plastic products as you can think of in your household. Be creative. Use that imagination of yours. And if you’re really stuck then use this guide.

You’re welcome.

– K