Drink responsibly EVERY DAY! You go to meetings, coffee breaks, PTA functions, and soccer matches, accompanied by the ever-present cup of coffee or bottle of water. You stop at Starbucks or 7-11 for coffee. You jog with a bottle of water. So, care for our planet by lessening the amount of Styrofoam and plastic on the roadsides and in the landfill. Keep a coffee cup at your desk at work and a commuter mug in your car for use at meetings or filling at Peet’s. Fill a water bottle on your way out to a game or run. Keep a couple filled, in the refrigerator or freezer (great for a hot day at an arts festival). Just be sure to rotate your cups and bottles often, bringing them home for a thorough cleaning to avoid bacteria growth. This keeps both you and the Earth healthier.
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Unmelted Bottle Caps
Remove caps from bottles before recycling. Because they melt at far different temperatures, a cap mixed in with bottles can leave unmelted plastic, making the whole batch unusable for other items.
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Flip Your Lid
Or at least your cap…bottle cap, that is. That innocent-looking bit of plastic has become a big problem for seabirds (choking them), whales (clogging their bellies), and other animals, plus adding to the Great Plastic Garbage Patch in the ocean. There are so many of them–they’re the third most common piece of trash people find when cleaning up rivers and beaches and cost taxpayers millions of dollars to clean up.
There’s a bill in California–AB319–aimed at solving much of the cap problem. It would require that all single-use plastic bottles have their caps tethered to the bottle rather than being removable. Experts say it won’t be costly for manufacturers and means that more of those caps will be recycled along with their bottles.
See more details at http://abc30.com/society/proposal-to-ban-plastic-bottle-caps-in-california/2869849.
You can help by doing two things:
1) If you live in CA, ask your assemblymember to vote “yes” on AB319. If you live in another state, ask your representative to introduce a similar bill.
2) No matter where you live, screw those caps back on those bottles before you toss them into the recycle bin.
Plastic Algae?
Something to think about when tossing out those grocery bags and water bottles: After decades of plastic waste disposal, there is now more plastic than algae in the ocean.
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