I’ve heard of this place in the ocean where all of our plastic supposedly goes but I’d never really seen pictures of it so I wasn’t sure it was real. These guys thought the same thing so they got a boat and went out there and made a pretty good documentary about it. Gross. My favorite quote, “I think we’ve really fucked up and we’re all gonna burn in hell for this.” Made me laugh.
Just try and live without plastic though. Discover Magazine had several articles this month about plastics, one about how the chemicals in some plastics cause feminization and another, “Think you can live with out plastic?”
The answer is basically, you can’t. Plastic is everywhere. Your clothes are plastic. Your mouse is plastic. Even your paper milk carton has a plastic lining. 7 billion pounds per year and that’s just polycarbonate. Every single piece of food you buy comes in plastic, possibly leaching hormone-like chemicals into your food. It really is every single piece of food too, think about it. Cereal, meat, cheese, canned food, chips, everything. Fruit is about the only thing that doesn’t come in plastic, and a lot of people will put that in a least one plastic bag when they buy it. Wait, Pasta Roni does not come in plastic, it just has a cardboard box and the special seasoning pack has what looks like kind of metal lining. It probably has plastic though. Everything else comes in plastic though, except fresh fruit and veggies, .. and eggs depending on the cartoon.
One thing I can do about it is not use plastic bags anymore. I bought this small little reusable bag that fits in my coat pocket and it’s great. It’s way stronger than the plastic or paper bags you get from the store and it’s not a pain to carry it around. It stays in my coat so I have it when I need it. It’s made of nylon, but at least I only need one. That’s plastic bags down, now I gotta figure out how to not get all this other plastic.