Waste Management Motivation
A friend of the family, Bryan, emailed me the other day with a link to a blog post over at The Coffee House. If you ever need inspiration or motivation on why you should be trying to manage the amount of waste you simply throw away, you definitely need to check out this post! It really highlights how plastic waste really affects marine life, and most of that only exists as packaging of products. And it isn’t just packaging, but also the plastic bags so many of us get at the grocery store to bring home the products we buy. You could think of it as packaging of packaging of the products we buy.
The video talks about turning in those bags so they can be used in other products. However, you could go another step further and use reusable bags. I did a post about reusable bags before, but I don’t think we can say enough about it. I said it before, if there is one thing you do to attempt green, this should be it. The one thing that has helped me on my little trips and remembering to bring the bags into the store has been a small bag I bought at Target. This bag zips up to be about the same size as a female’s wallet, easily fitting into a purse so I always have it with me.
Go watch the video that the Coffee House has posted, and any time you think that it just doesn’t matter, watch it again. I’ve added it to my favorites and will likely be watching it a few more times.
Tags: green, recycle, reduce, Waste Management