Oprah had a green show for Earth Day. 2 big things I learned:
1. There are garbage patches in our oceans. In every ocean, there is a 'patch' of plastic. In the Pacific, it is the size of Texas and 100feet deep in some areas. They showed pictures of animals being trapped in plastic bags, suffocating, and trying to eat the plastic. It was all plastic bags from the grocery store and water bottles.
2. In LA county alone, the landfill is 100' deep and they take in like 3 tons of garbage every day. Everyone in LA county produces 4lbs of trash A DAY. The things they found in the landfill were ridiculous. Furniture, mattresses, clothes, paper.
Lessons Learned:
1. RECYCLE. Do not put your furniture out on the street for the trash to take. Bring it to GoodWill or a shelter. DO you know how many people out there have nothing and would die for a free dresser or bed?
2. RECYCLE. Put plastic bottles in the recycle Bin.
3. RECYCLE. Give your old clothes to Goodwill. Send your old shoes to a charity like Souls4Shoes or Nike!
4. DO NOT USE PLASTIC BAGS. Bring your own bags to the store, always. If you don't have them with you, don't take a bag if you can.
5. Get a Nalgene and do not drink out of plastic water bottles.
Those are my lessons for the day.
2 comments:
I'm not surprised but still appalled. Eventually it will be like in the movie Wall-E.
Its Crazy! John and I have been trying not to use plastics or buy anything in plastic. Its so hard!!
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