Shout out to all veterans today and all of America!
Consider making this a #PlasticFreeFriday!
Go plastic-free for 24 hours! Buy or drink no sodas from plastic bottles,
receive no plastic shopping bags, take no plastic containers from takeout, use
no plastic flatware.
Fill your beverage bottles at home to take with you, keep
reusable shopping bags in your car. Use glass containers, reusable plates and
flatware for food. Why? 17 MILLION gallons of oil is used EVERY day in the USA
-- just to make plastic water bottles. Then we throw out 88,000 tons of
plastic, every day. And here's what's scary: 93% of us retain the plastic
chemical, BPA, in our bodies. BPA and other endocrine disrupters are challenging the health of our families by depressing vitamin D levels among other harmful effects.
We can do better! Perhaps plastic free everyday is a heavy lift...but if we can do it for 24 hours we can move in that direction.