Something very easy to do to help the climate and our world. Maybe add your ideas?
I just bought some more bar shampoo. That means no plastic bottle and no toxins spread into the environment from making them. When I run out of conditioner I am going to buy bar conditioner also.
And of course, bar soap. Plenty of really good environmentally friendly bar soaps around. I like to shop at Etsy but Amazon, Ebay and other places have them and they are not that expensive.
I've bought environmentally friendly dish soap and dishwasher soap but I want to find a better house for them than plactic bottles.
https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Pollution-from-Plastic
From bottled water alone, the US throws away enough plastic bottles in one week to encircle our planet 5 times! That’s just 5% of the global population.
Globally, we use 160,000 plastic bags every second!
These plastics when thrown in landfills or elsewhere, find their way into our oceans – killing the marine mammals that mistake them for food. This is just the tip of the plastic garbage issue that’s alarming environmentalists these days.
What makes plastic so harmful to humans, animal and plant life and our environment is that they’re non-biodegradable. It only starts degrading in 700 years. This means that all the plastic that has ever been produced has not degraded yet.
Even when it degrades, it doesn’t turn into some other form that gets absorbed by nature. It photo-degrades, which means it only breaks down into smaller toxic bits of itself. It’s forever there. Pollution from plastic affects the air, land and oceans.
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When plastic is produced, it’s made from toxic materials such as benzene and vinyl hydrochloride. It is destined to be toxic from birth to forever. These chemicals are known to cause cancer, and the manufacturing byproducts contaminate our air and soil. The type of plastic that is the major source of dioxin is PVC.
Phthalates are another toxic chemical added to plastics to make them softer and more pliable. It is known to affect our fertility, disrupt our endocrine glands, birth defects and other health problems. The problem with phthalate is that they are not chemically bound to the products, so they’re easily evaporated into the air. That new “plastic” smell is the smell of phthalates off-gassing. Don’t sniff it!
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How you can help stop pollution from plastics
We’d like to say ban plastics! Recycling it is not solving anything. We just turn it into one toxic form to another. But until we find a new material to replace it, the best thing to do is to cut down on the use of plastics. Carry your own bags when shopping. Recycle all your plastics. Keep it away from the landfill and away from the ocean.
It may seem like a small effort but it’s not. Together, we can drastically lower our plastic wastes. When there’s less demand for plastic, there will be a decrease in production too. This is your power as a consumer! You can lessen the demand.
We have created a world littered with plastics in 60 years. With all our technology and with our increasing awareness, we can still turn it around and prevent our children from inheriting a plastic Earth.
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It is a shame that now with the CV-19 we can not use our own bags anymore. We had to switch to grocery pickup and now have no control on the plastic bags.
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