Reduce Your Plastic Use – Tip #2 – 10 for 2010
One of the best ways to go green is to reduce your use of plastic, especially disposable plastic items.
First, the problem with plastics:
- Plastics contain potentially toxic material like BPA and phthalates. These chemicals are shown to be potent hormone disruptors and are increasingly linked to adverse health effects like cancer, infertility, early puberty, obesity, behavior changes, and reproductive system damages.
- Plastics are a non-renewable, fossil fuel based substance. Made from petroleum, they never biodegrade. In fact, every piece of plastic ever produced is still in existence in some form today!
Fortunately, using less plastic is easy to do, healthier for you, better for the planet, and puts money in your wallet.
Here are a few products that can help you seriously reduce your use of disposable plastic:
Klean Kanteen LifeFactory Bottles Glass Dharma Chico Bags
- Use real table cloths instead of plastic and real silverware instead of disposable.
- Bring your own coffee mug to work or your local coffee shop.
- Use Reusable Lunch bag, reusable snack and produce bags
- Ask your dry cleaner to return your clothes to you in a reusable bag
- Pay attention to packaging and Reusable Clothes Bag
Reducing plastic use is good for your health, good for your wallet and good for the planet – now what could be greener than that?
Tags: BPA, buygreen.com, hormone disruptors, phthalates, plastic
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