To Cut Plastic Waste Out of Your Life, Start Small
As soon as Carolyn Armstrong started looking for plastic in her life, she realized it was absolutely everywhere. There are the plastic water bottles and straws, of course, but also makeup, clothing, laundry detergent, food wrappers and packaging. “Everything that we use is encased in plastic,” Armstrong says. “Sometimes, I go to the grocery store and take pictures of the fruit that is behind the plastic and I email the store and say: ‘Please stop doing that!’
Taking Plastic Packaging BACK to the Store to Push CEOs to Skip Single-Use Plastic
Learn more about the fantastic plastic packaging take-backs Beyond Plastics advocates hosted outside major grocery chains across the country this Plastic Free July.
Albany Shoppers Return Plastic Packaging to Market 32
On Saturday, shoppers with signs returned plastic packaging waste from Market 32, in an effort to highlight the urgent need for a packaging reduction act in the state legislature. Organizers said excessive single-use plastic packaging is a growing global environmental crisis.