Preventing Plastic Suicide
Here are a few things you can do to help prevent plastic and toxic chemicals from entering our environment. There are many more things you can do as well.
Will you help? prevent plastic waste from hurting or killing your children and ancestors? Only you ( every one of us ) can make any kind headway but we need to all do it consciously and everyday. This is a serious problem and if we don't act to prevent it, all of our future children will suffer, and we all must do it together and do it now and every day!
"1.) Bring your own cloth or recycled grocery bags to the store.
2.) Keep litter, leaves, and debris out of street gutters and storm drains.
3.) Sweep sidewalks, don’t hose them.
4.) Use natural pest killers in your garden, such as ladybugs, decollate snails, or praying mantis eggs. Use pesticides sparingly.
5.) Dispose of used oil, antifreeze, paints, and other household chemicals at a hazardous waste facility, not in storm drains.
6.) Keep vehicles well maintained. Clean up spilled brake fluid, oil, grease, and antifreeze that your car might produce.
7.) Wash your car on the lawn so that the water sinks in the ground. Use environmentally friendly cleaners.
8.) Purchase household detergents and cleaners that are low in phosphorous to reduce the amount of nutrients discharged into our lakes, streams and coastal waters.
9.) Buy in bulk. Re-use when possible. Reduce consumption by avoiding excessively packaged products.
10.) HOUSEHOLD CHALLENGE: create a 100% recyclable grocery list. Imagine all of your household waste going into the recycle bin!"
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~ list taken from plasticsareforever.org - http://plasticsareforever.org/?page_id=7~
Will you help? prevent plastic waste from hurting or killing your children and ancestors? Only you ( every one of us ) can make any kind headway but we need to all do it consciously and everyday. This is a serious problem and if we don't act to prevent it, all of our future children will suffer, and we all must do it together and do it now and every day!
"1.) Bring your own cloth or recycled grocery bags to the store.
2.) Keep litter, leaves, and debris out of street gutters and storm drains.
3.) Sweep sidewalks, don’t hose them.
4.) Use natural pest killers in your garden, such as ladybugs, decollate snails, or praying mantis eggs. Use pesticides sparingly.
5.) Dispose of used oil, antifreeze, paints, and other household chemicals at a hazardous waste facility, not in storm drains.
6.) Keep vehicles well maintained. Clean up spilled brake fluid, oil, grease, and antifreeze that your car might produce.
7.) Wash your car on the lawn so that the water sinks in the ground. Use environmentally friendly cleaners.
8.) Purchase household detergents and cleaners that are low in phosphorous to reduce the amount of nutrients discharged into our lakes, streams and coastal waters.
9.) Buy in bulk. Re-use when possible. Reduce consumption by avoiding excessively packaged products.
10.) HOUSEHOLD CHALLENGE: create a 100% recyclable grocery list. Imagine all of your household waste going into the recycle bin!"
.
~ list taken from plasticsareforever.org - http://plasticsareforever.org/?page_id=7~