I recently read a blog from a woman who took a week longchallenge to go throughout each day without acquiring any new disposableplastic. Her results are typical. It’s actually really hard not to use somesort of disposable plastic day to day. Actually, her efforts are quite commendable.She went two days out of seven without her herself using any new plastic, butshe attributed that to not really buying anything on those days, and couldn’treally avoid the plastic that her kids brought into the house from outsidesources. She noted that the main culprits are plastic bags used in packaging items, like in thesupermarket, which are pretty much unavoidable. Marshmallows, for example,whether you choose to take them home in a plastic bag, paper bag, or reusable bag, they stillcome in plastic packaging. So many other little avoidable pieces of plastic arenoted in her blog as well, plastic straws, plastic caps, swim goggles and othersmall toys that kids use until they grow out of, and then throw them away.Grocery shopping is inevitable, and the reuseable nonwoven bags are helpful only if you remember to bring them. Sure, you couldbuy less on a day to day basis, but then where does that leave our alreadyslumping economy? Using paperbags is an option as well, but then we’re back to square one, withdeforestation issues, and the environmentally harmful effects of theirproduction as well. The fact is, it’s cheaper to produce plastic retailbags, and it costs more to recycle them than making new ones. So maybe itis unavoidable to acquire plastic someway or another. But I can admire those ofus who are aware and actually try. As Trudy so wisely stated, “I can’t say Imanaged to avoid plastic for a week. But the experience of trying to do so mademe much more aware of what passes through my hands and how much of it I can(and can’t) control.”

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