Call me naive, but the crushing reality of what plastic and plastic bottles are doing to our environment and our oceans has been a bit removed from my active conscious. Well, no more. I just read a PBS article on the plastic problem and it was a bit of an eye opener. Did you know that there is an 'island' of plastic the size of Texas floating out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? No? Well neither did I until now. So why are companies still selling so much stuff in plastic? Many of them are trying to call themselves 'green' while at the same time continuing to exacerbate the plastic problem.
Wouldn't it be nice if a few of the large packaged goods companies really took a pro-active stance in solving this huge and frightening problem, rather than waiting until the government realizes that it has to do something to stop us literally drowning in our own garbage?
I am feeling a little hot under the collar about this and wonder whether there are things that we can do to stop this happening, apart from cutting down on the amount of plastic bottles we buy?
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