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Originally Posted by Darield
Lately I have been getting feeds on my phone about foods and products to avoid to reduce our consumption of micro plastics. So this has obviously become a problem since we are even finding this nasty stuff in our livestock our soil and of course The Ocean. I decided to ask several stores how many plastic bags they go through a day and the common answer was between 4-7,000 A DAY! I then looked up approximately how may grocery stores are in Florida? Approximately 20,000. If I multiply 20,000 x 3,000 bags (a very conservative number). Just in Florida we are using approximately 60 million plastic bags a day!! We don't have the manpower to recycle this plastic (latest figures are between 5 and 6% gets recycled) so the majority ends up in landfills, the ocean or best yet, we burn it in huge trash facilities. Please use reusable grocery bags.
If this interests you, here are some links to read more;
5 Things You Need to Know About How Florida Banned Plastic Bags - Debris Free Oceans
plastic-bags/https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worsehttps://shunpoly.com/article/how-much-of-the-usas-plastic-is-recycled |
I have been trying to make a concentrated effort to avoid plastic bags. I have cloth bags in my golf cart and if I forget them will sometimes just carry my items if there are a few. I avoid buying laundry detergent in plastic bottles although it is getting harder to find them. We are surrounded by plastics. Remember The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman was told "plastics"? We are over run with plastics, however, the government, especially here in Florida, won't do anything about it. NJ and CA don't allow them. We can do the same and should make all plastics go away.