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simply carry all your groceries in your mouth

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legos are a big waste of plastic gang fam. Just use your tablet to play MY LEGO STUDIO for free on the app store
and for much less plastic. SAVE THE EARTH :0

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don't harm them. hunting is fine but follow the rules of the city or state that you are hunting in

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Plastic bags may cost us only 5 cent but for the ecosystem it is way more. Don't buy plastic. Invest in a cloth bag instead.

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use renewable energy instead of adding to our carbon emissions lads!

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Stop using straws. All together. Plastic, metal, paper, etc. You're a sophisticated adult, not an illiterate child with an inability to lift a small glass.  Just bring the glass to your lips and sip.  Straws are also incredibly lame and sad and kill the world with landfills.

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cars create too much pollution! consider investing in one of these sick and 100% clean babies

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Stop using plastic bags to reduce pollution

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Stop using plastic bags to reduce pollution

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listen to CVS music video on solar powered pc

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listen to CVS music video on solar powered pc

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Why ride boring ol bicycles to help the planet when you could look dope as fudge on a ripstick AANNDD still help da earth ;;;;)))))))

cause derz no co-two immesions poof poof

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With this company your compost is picked up every week. At the end of the spring, the company brings you a bag of mulch made out of the food you compost. This allows for sustainability between your food and garden.

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Curbside Composting - So easy, you won't even get your hands dirty.

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Make the switch to bars instead of bottles baby!! Shampoo bars do all the same work as the liquid stuff that comes in a bottle, but so so much more. Shampoo bars don't require plastic or paper packaging so by avoiding the unnecessary plastic, we reduce or carbon footprint. They are extremely concentrated and provide you with a deeper clean on top of Little or no packaging, and zero waste. on top of all this bar shampoo is easy to travel with as it can double as a body soap. They are easy on the environment, AND the wallet! why not give it a go???
https://unwrappedlife.com/blogs/blog/top-eight-reasons-to-make-the-switch-to-solid-shampoo-bars-and-conditioner-bars-too

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Throw any paper and plastic in the blue and green boxes with that triangle made out of arrows

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When given the option to have a new phone, car, pair of jean, etc. SAY NO!
by limiting our intake, we limit our waste.

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starting in the 1970's, companies have shown the protection of the environment as people cleaning up, however this ignores the fact that the worst of environmental destruction is done by large companies. If we were to put pressure on big companies, such as a carbon tax, would really make a difference in Americas waste output

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It's probably the most famous tear in American history: Iron Eyes Cody, an actor in Native American garb, paddles a birch bark canoe on water that seems, at first, tranquil and pristine, but that becomes increasingly polluted along his journey. He pulls his boat ashore and walks toward a bustling freeway. As the lone Indian ponders the polluted landscape, a passenger hurls a paper bag out a car window. The bag bursts on the ground, scattering fast-food wrappers all over the Indian's beaded moccasins. In a stern voice, the narrator comments: "Some people have a deep, abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. And some people don't." The camera zooms in on Iron Eyes Cody's face to reveal a single tear falling, ever so slowly, down his cheek.

Cody's tear made its television debut in 1971 at the close of a public service advertisement for the anti-litter organization Keep America Beautiful. Appearing in languid motion on TV over and over again during the 1970s, the tear also circulated in other media, stilled on billboards and print ads, forever fixing the image of Iron Eyes Cody as the Crying Indian. The ad won many prizes and is still ranked as one of the best commercials of all time. By the mid-1970s, an Ad Council official noted, "TV stations have continually asked for replacement films" of the commercial, "because they have literally worn out the originals from the constant showings." For many Americans, the Crying Indian became the quintessential symbol of environmental idealism. But a closer examination of the ad reveals that neither the tear nor the sentiment was what it seemed to be.

Behind the tear

The campaign was based on many duplicities. The first of them was that Iron Eyes Cody was actually born Espera de Corti - an Italian-American who played Indians in both his life and on screen. The commercial's impact hinged on the emotional authenticity of the Crying Indian's tear. In promoting this symbol, Keep America Beautiful was trying to piggyback on the counterculture's embrace of Native American culture as a more authentic identity than commercial culture.

The second duplicity was that Keep America Beautiful was composed of leading beverage and packaging corporations. Not only were they the very essence of what the counterculture was against; they were also staunchly opposed to many environmental initiatives.

Keep America Beautiful was founded in 1953 by the American Can Co. and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co., who were later joined by the likes of Coca-Cola and the Dixie Cup Co. During the 1960s, Keep America Beautiful anti-litter campaigns featured Susan Spotless, a white girl who wore a spotless white dress and pointed her accusatory finger at pieces of trash heedlessly dropped by her parents. The campaign used the wagging finger of a child to condemn individuals for being bad parents, irresponsible citizens and unpatriotic Americans. But by 1971, Susan Spotless no longer captured the zeitgeist of the burgeoning environmental movement and rising concerns about pollution.

The shift from Keep America Beautiful's bland admonishments about litter to the Crying Indian did not represent an embrace of ecological values but instead indicated industry's fear of them. In the time leading up to the first Earth Day in 1970, environmental demonstrations across the United States focused on the issue of throwaway containers. All these protests held industry - not consumers - responsible for the proliferation of disposable items that depleted natural resources and created a solid waste crisis. Enter the Crying Indian, a new public relations effort that incorporated ecological values but deflected attention from beverage and packaging industry practices.

Keep America Beautiful practiced a sly form of propaganda. Since the corporations behind the campaign never publicized their involvement, audiences assumed that the group was a disinterested party. The Crying Indian provided the guilt-inducing tear that the group needed to propagandize without seeming propagandistic and countered the claims of a political movement without seeming political. At the moment the tear appears, the narrator, in a baritone voice, intones: "People start pollution. People can stop it." By making individual viewers feel guilty and responsible for the polluted environment, the ad deflected the question of responsibility away from corporations and placed it entirely in the realm of individual action, concealing the role of industry in polluting the landscape.

When the ad debuted, Keep America Beautiful enjoyed the support of mainstream environmental groups, including the National Audubon Society and the Sierra Club. But these organizations soon resigned from its advisory council over an important environmental debate of the 1970s: efforts to pass "bottle bills," legislation that would require soft drink and beer producers to sell, as they had until quite recently, their beverages in reusable containers. The shift to the throwaway was responsible, in part, for the rising levels of litter that Keep America Beautiful publicized, but also, as environmentalists emphasized, for the mining of vast quantities of natural resources, the production of various kinds of pollution, and the generation of tremendous amounts of solid waste. The Keep America Beautiful leadership lined up against the bottle bills, going so far, in one case, as to label supporters of such legislation as "communists."

Lasting impact

We can still see the impact of the Crying Indian campaign today in mainstream portrayals of environmentalism that prioritize the personal over the political. The answer to pollution, as Keep America Beautiful would have it, had nothing to do with power, politics or production decisions; it was simply a matter of how individuals acted in their daily lives. Ever since the first Earth Day, the mainstream media have repeatedly turned big systemic problems into questions of individual responsibility. Too often, individual actions like recycling and green consumerism have provided Americans with a therapeutic dose of environmental hope that fails to address our underlying issues.

But there is a final way that the commercial distorted reality. In the ad, the time-traveling Indian paddled his canoe out of the distant past, appearing as a visual relic of indigenous people who had supposedly vanished from the continent. He was presented as an anachronism who did not belong in the picture.

One of the commercial's striking ironies is that Iron Eyes Cody became the Crying Indian at the same moment that actual Indians occupied Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the very same body of water in which the actor paddled his canoe. For almost two years, from late 1969 through mid-1971, a period that overlapped with both the filming and release of the Crying Indian commercial, indigenous activists demanded that the U.S. government cede control of the abandoned island. They presented themselves not as past-tense Indians, but as contemporary citizens laying claim to the land. The Alcatraz activists sought to challenge the legacies of colonialism and contest contemporary injustices - to address, in other words, the realities of native lives erased by the anachronistic Indians who typically populate Hollywood film. By contrast, the Crying Indian appears completely powerless. In the commercial, all he can do is lament the land his people lost.

In recent years, the large-scale organizing and protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, the Dakota Access pipeline, and other fossil fuel development projects all represent a powerful rejection of the Crying Indian. While the Crying Indian appeared as a ghost from the past who erased the presence of actual Indians from the landscape, these activists have visibly proposed structural solutions for the environment while demanding indigenous land rights. Moving beyond individual-driven messages, they cast off static symbols of the past to envision a just and sustainable future.
Zocalo Public Square Finis Dunaway is professor of history at Trent University. He is the author of "Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images." This was written for the Smithsonian's "What It Means to be American" project.

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It's probably the most famous tear in American history: Iron Eyes Cody, an actor in Native American garb, paddles a birch bark canoe on water that seems, at first, tranquil and pristine, but that becomes increasingly polluted along his journey. He pulls his boat ashore and walks toward a bustling freeway.

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i will buy a bottle and reuse it instead of buying single ones all the time. it will help with pollution.

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put it in the box..

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Straws are made of plastic and have no purpose, they only exist to add to the amount of waste on our planet. More plastic means less opportunity for reversing climate change.

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preserves tha animals ;)

vegans are superior

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Recycles organic materials (food waste) and turns them into fertilizer that can be used to enrich soil and grow plants.
https://garbagetogarden.org/

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Post 1 action for the Earth. Describe (1) how it helps and (2) how to do it. Include a link or a photograph!

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We all want a clean and healthy planet and the small choices we make each day can help us get there. Explore this tool to learn simple, everyday tips and tricks from Google and the California Academy of Sciences to leave the environment in better shape.

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get phone less often

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ReVision Energy is a local company that supplies and installs solar panels and power.

https://www.revisionenergy.com/

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Metals such as Aluminium and Copper can save you more than 75% in energy bills when using recycled metal instead of natural resources too. Due to recycling less Greenhouse gasses such as Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrous Oxide and Water Vapour are being produced each year.

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Make sure that you keep all the cans a bottles that you use in order to be able to return them for 5 cents each, While we should try to use reusable bottles. If you have cans or plastic bottles be sure to always return them to ensure that they get reused

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this works when your laptop has solar. you will   the sun as energy.

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visit the link

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Conserving water helps reduce pollution, and protect fuel resources

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This helps because using solar energy as opposed to fossil fuels decreases the carbon emissions that pollute the environment. Solar energy is a good source of a clean and renewable source of power. Using more solar energy helps because it minimizes the carbon emissions that impact the environment.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/solar-power/

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In Portland not only does it charge you 10 cents every time you buy a plastic bag. It is also better for the environment if you limit that amount of plastic we are using that we cant recycle. Basically use reusable bags when shopping.

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Using a reusable water bottle helps reduce the amount of plastic that is produced and thrown away especially if you don't have access to a recycling system

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Go easy on the single-use plastic. These reusable water bottles can help you cut down on waste.

We all use them. Single-use plastic bottles are readily available and inexpensive to buy, so it's easy to see why so many people drink water from them all the time. In fact, the entire world goes through about a million (yes, that's one million) plastic bottles a minute, with only less than 9% of them finding their way into recycling bins after use. It's estimated that about half a trillion plastic bottles will be sold around the world by the year 2020.

Meanwhile, the end result of all this inexpensive convenience is a floating island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean that's estimated to be three times the size of France. Clearly, drinking bottled water is a nasty habit that has to stop, so why not break the cycle and get a reusable water bottle instead.

Reusable water bottles are better for the environment and cheaper in the long run than continuously buying bottled water again and again. After all, water out of the tap is free.

Most bottling companies simply tap into the municipal water supply, triple filter it, bottle it, and then sell it to you. It's like paying for clean and fresh drinking water twice. In addition, municipal water is sometimes safer to drink than bottled water because government agencies regulate the water closer and more often than some private bottling companies do.

So please do yourself a favor, and get a reusable water bottle. The Earth will thank you and so will your wallet. Here are the best 11 reusable water bottles you can buy today:

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Go easy on the single-use plastic. These reusable water bottles can help you cut down on waste. We all use them. Single-use plastic bottles are readily available and inexpensive to buy, so it's easy to see why so many people drink water from them all the time.

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This will help reduce the amount of plastics you use daily.

https://www.nalgene.com/

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you can use a plastic reusable water bottle instead of buying bottles of water.

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This helps decrease the amount of pollution that goes in the air. You can do this by collecting them every time you finish using one.

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Reusing plastic water bottles has direct environmental and financial benefits.

Reusing Plastic Water Bottles

If you wish to minimize waste and save money in the process, you must consume less and focus more on efficiency than on convenience. It requires a substantial amount of energy to manufacture, fill, ship, and recycle or destroy plastic water bottles.

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Washing and reusing plastic water bottles reduces waste and landfill crowding, minimizes pollution, and conserves energy. Refilling your plastic water bottle with tap water is considerably less resource intensive than purchasing commercially purified and bottled water.

Environmental Benefits

The reuse of plastic bottles has wide-reaching benefits on the environment.

Every day, consumers discard more than 60 million plastic water bottles. These bottles litter highways, clog waterways, or end up in incinerators and landfills. Plastic in landfills can take up to 700 years to decompose.

Meeting consumer demand for water bottles in the United States requires more than 15 million barrels of oil each year for manufacturing, transport, and disposal. That is enough oil to fuel approximately 100,000 cars for an entire year.

Plastic bottles are one of the least recycled materials in the United States. The Recycling Institute states that only about one in six plastic bottles sold in the United States was recycled in 2004, or about 17% of all plastic water bottles bought by consumers.

Reusing plastic water bottles means less need to manufacture new bottles from virgin petroleum resin, and less trash that ends up in landfills, streams, and parks. Reusing plastic bottles can significantly reduce pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy usage.

Financial Benefits

In addition to the environmental benefits of reusing bottles, there are also direct and indirect financial benefits.

Reusing a plastic bottle that initially costs US $1.25 just ten times equals a savings of $12.50. Reusing that same bottle 60 times will save $75. If you purchase a single disposable plastic water bottle every day for a year, you will spend more than $450. Buying and reusing one bottle per year results in a significant financial savings.

While the direct financial savings are the most obvious and substantial, reusing water bottles also provides indirect financial benefits. Reduced consumption of natural resources means lower monthly utility bills, and less strain on landfills and recycling programs may result in tax reductions or other savings.

Dangers of Reusing Plastic Bottles

According to the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, most beverage bottles sold in the United States are manufactured from polyethylene terephthalate, a type of plastic determined safe to use and reuse by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

However, consumers should keep a few things in mind for plastic water bottle safety when reusing plastic water bottles:

Reusing bottles without cleaning them encourages the growth of potentially harmful bacteria. It is essential to clean all plastic water bottles between uses, just like any other food or beverage container. When properly cleaned, plastic bottles pose no greater risk of bacterial contamination than glasses or mugs.

Many plastic bottles contain a chemical called Bisphenol A, or BPA. This chemical is associated with a variety of health risks. Heating or bleaching plastic bottles may increase the leeching of BPA into the bottle's contents.

Recent evidence suggests that PET, the type of plastic most commonly used to make plastic water bottles, may contain hormone-disrupting chemicals. Martin Wagner of Goethe University in Frankfurt states that these chemicals may potentially interfere with the body's natural levels of estrogen and other hormones.

Ideas for Reusing Plastic Bottles

Most people reuse plastic bottles for storing water or other liquids. However, there are hundreds of different ways to reuse plastic bottles. A few ideas for reusing bottles are below.

1. Cut the top off a bottle and use it to store pencils or art supplies.

2. Use a plastic bottle as a piggy bank by cutting a slit into the top.

3. Fill a plastic bottle halfway with water, and then place it in your freezer. The water bottle will serve as an instant ice pack.

4. Use the top half of a bottle as a funnel, and use the bottom half as a plastic pot for plants.

5. Fill a bottle with equal parts oil and water, add some glitter or food coloring, and decorate the outside. The water and oil will not mix, resulting in interesting designs during shaking or other movement. This is a fun project for children.

Reuse or Recycle?

While recycling plastic water bottles is certainly better for the environment than throwing them in the trash, recycling uses energy to process plastic into another usable product. Moreover, the recycling process produces wastewater and air pollutants. Reusing plastic bottles requires no additional energy expenditure and does not contribute to pollution.

Ideally, it is best for the environment to avoid purchasing and using plastic bottles entirely. When you cannot avoid using disposable containers, you should reuse them as many times as possible or buy reusable water bottles. When you can no longer use them, opt for recycling the containers instead of throwing them away. This practice will ensure the greatest environmental and financial benefits.

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Reusing plastic water bottles has direct environmental and financial benefits. If you wish to minimize waste and save money in the process, you must consume less and focus more on efficiency than on convenience. It requires a substantial amount of energy to manufacture, fill, ship, and recycle or destroy plastic water bottles.

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is a search engine, alternative to Google, that plants a tree in a place where trees are needed for every few searches. We can’t install the browser to use on our Chromebooks, but you can still search with it, or use it at home!

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Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees

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Ecosia uses the ad revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed the most. By searching with Ecosia, you're not only reforesting our planet, but you're also empowering the communities around our planting projects to build a better future for themselves. Give it a try!

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Plastic bags take 15-1,000 years to breakdown. They don't biodegrade. Each year countless animals die from ingesting plastic bags. Using reusable bags will decrease the amount of pollution that comes from plastic and paper bags.

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Disposable shopping bags are everywhere. From department stores to gas stations, they are the way we tote our purchases. These lightweight containers were introduced in the 1970s as a means of making shopping easier for consumers. So what's the big deal? The average American goes through six shopping bags per week. With a population of roughly 300 million, that means 1.8 billion bags are used and discarded in America every week, and all of that trash adds up.

We've compiled 25 facts about plastic bags and paper bags that we think are good reasons for you to pick up a reusable bag and make the next bag you throw out your last.

1. According to Johns Hopkins University, COVID-19 doesn't survive on a soft surface (like fabric). It does survive on hard surfaces like door handles and elevator buttons that are touched frequently.

2. How long does it take for plastic bags to decompose? A plastic bag can take from 15 to 1,000 years to break down, depending on environment. In a landfill, kept away from the environment that would help them biodegrade more easily, paper bags don't do much better.

3. Plastic bags don't biodegrade, but they can break down through photo degradation. When photo degradation, decomposition through exposure to light, happens, the bag breaks down into small, toxic particles.

4. An estimated one million birds, 100,000 turtles, and countless other sea animals die each year from ingesting plastic. The animals confuse floating bags and plastic particles for edible sea life such as jellyfish and plankton. Once ingested, the plastic blocks the digestive tract and the animals starve to death. Other animals drown after becoming entangled in plastic waste.

5. The cost to recycle plastic bags outweighs their value, so most recycling facilities will not take them. Instead of being recycled, they are thrown out with the rest of the trash.

6. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been collecting plastic bag statistics for more than a decade, roughly 2% of plastic bags are recycled in the United States. The rest are left to live on indefinitely in landfills or decompose in our oceans, where they leech toxins into the water and soil.

7. The United States uses about 100 billion plastic bags per year, with the average person using between 350 and 500.

8. Thanks to their light weight, plastic bags in landfills don't always stay there. They are likely to fly away and can settle in trees, block storm drains, and clutter beaches.

9. When it comes to the cost of using plastic bags, facts don't lie. Public agencies in California alone spend more than $300 million on cleaning up coastal litter every year.

10. Plastic bags make up more than 10% of washed-up debris that pollutes the U.S. coastline.

11. Discarded plastic bags have turned up as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as the Falkland Islands, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

12. Plastic bags are made from petroleum products and natural gas, both non-renewable resources, and their manufacture helps to drive up gas prices.

13. It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic bags that the U.S. uses every year.

14. Think custom paper tote bags are better? Think again. The U.S. cuts down 14 million trees a year to supply the raw material to make paper shopping bags.

15. It takes 13% more energy to make a single paper bag than to make two plastic bags.

16. Paper bag production involves the use of chemicals and high temperatures, and it releases toxins into the atmosphere at nearly the same rate as plastic bag production.

17. Paper bags weigh almost ten times as much as plastic ones, meaning that more fuel is required to ship them to stores.

18. Despite being highly recyclable, only 20% of paper bags end up being recycled, while the rest share a fate with their plastic brethren.

19. In landfills, paper bags create more than twice as much atmospheric waste as plastic ones do, so they're not necessarily a better choice for the environment.

20. Ireland was the first European country to impose a tax on plastic bags. The nation has decreased its plastic shopping bag use by 90% since 2002, cutting overall plastic bag use by 1.08 billion.

21. More than a dozen nations have banned or taxed disposable bags in the past five years.

22. Custom reusable shopping bags come in a wide variety of stylish shapes and prints, making shopping a bit less routine and more fun. They can be customized and imprinted with logos and designs to be used over and over.

23. Some grocery stores offer discounts to customers who bring reusable bags: Now that's an incentive!

24. If every person in New York City used one less grocery bag, it would cut waste by 5 million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal costs.

25. The average reusable bag has a lifespan equal to that of more than 700 disposable plastic bags.

26. One person using reusable bags over their lifetime would remove more than 22,000 plastic bags from the environment. Isn't that an even better incentive?

There are thousands of other facts about plastic bags and how they impact our planet. But despite the damage they do to the environment, some people still haven't given up their plastic bags, facts or no facts.

At ReuseThisBag.com, we believe that sustainability starts at home and everyone should stand up for the environment. If you're a business, reducing waste is particularly paramount for maintaining good environmental stewardship.

Go reusable today!

About the Author

Douglas Lober Chief Product Specialist

Doug Lober is Co-Founder and Chief Product Specialist for ReuseThisBag.com. Lober is a passionate environmentalist with roots in the Southern California surf culture. Over the last 15 years, Lober has launched and supported a number of environmental initiatives around the land, sea, and air. Today, he continues to provide and support the use of eco-friendly promotional products for small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies. You can learn more about his extensive background in the industry on Linkedin.com, Quora.com, Instagram.com, Twitter and Alignable.com

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25+ Reasons to Use Reusable Grocery Bags (Updated)

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Get bags from hannaford, and put your used bottles in there, plus u get 5 cents for ch bottle you recycle. This reduces aluminium waste from the earth.

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This helps reduce waste
recycle things that are recyclable instead of throwing them away

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Biking / Walking Instead of Driving to Nearby Places

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Biking / Walking Instead of Driving to Nearby Places

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This helps because it decreases the amount of carbon emissions that are coming from cars. All you got to do is hop on a bike (if you own one) or hop on your legs and head to where ever you are going.
Here is a link talking about the cost-effectiveness of biking over driving!
https://www.thesimpledollar.com/walking-bicycling-driving-and-cost-effectiveness/

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Composting makes it so there is less food waste in land fills. Food in land fills can cause methane gas problems as well as just adding to landfills in general.  Here is a local composting company to get you started: https://garbagetogarden.org/

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1) Helps the environment  by decreasing power plant emissions + You save your money!
2) Using your hand or any type of object to turn off your light.

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Save energy, save the environment

Although it may not be obvious, there's a direct connection between your energy use and the environment. When you consume less power, you reduce the amount of toxic fumes released by power plants, conserve the earth's natural resources and protect ecosystems from destruction. By taking steps to reduce your energy intake, you'll contribute to a healthier and happier world.

Protect the air and prevent climate change

Perhaps the most notable way that reducing energy helps the environment is by decreasing power plant emissions. To generate electricity, most power plants burn coal, crude oil or other fossil fuels. Although this method of creating energy is relatively inexpensive, our planet pays the price - carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are just a few of the byproducts that come from traditional methods of power generation.

Carbon dioxide, which accounts for the majority of all airborne pollution, is a greenhouse gas. When carbon dioxide is released into the air, it absorbs the sun's warmth and keeps heat in our atmosphere. This "greenhouse effect" is a natural phenomenon, and it's necessary for survival on earth. However, as power plants burn more fuel to create more energy, the extra carbon waste traps too much heat. This can have a detrimental impact on our land and our lives. Effects of greenhouse gas emissions include:

Rising temperatures, heat waves and drought

Higher sea levels

Abnormal weather patterns

Increased intensity of natural disasters

Smog and acid rain

Cutting back on energy consumption reduces the amount of electricity that power plants have to make, subsequently reducing the amount of fossil fuels that are burned each day. Even a small change can make a tremendous difference - if every American household traded in just one incandescent light bulb for an efficient CFL, the reduction in pollution would be equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the road.

Conserve limited natural resources

When you opt to cut back on energy use, you also help conserve limited natural resources that would otherwise be used to power the power plants. Less demand for energy creates less demand for harvesting fossil fuels. Turning off the lights at night or washing clothes in cold water can save trees, coal, natural gas and more. From an economic standpoint, it's critical to conserve our finite resources. As fossil fuels become increasingly scarce, they will become extremely expensive.

Save ecosystems and animals

In addition to impacting climate patterns and depleting stores of natural resources, excessive energy use can harm animals and ecosystems. Mining, logging and material extraction associated with the provision of fossil fuels destroys habitats on land and in the ocean. Human-induced air pollution is one of the main reasons that biodiversity is disappearing at 1,000 times the normal extinction rate.

Oil spills, which often occur during the transport of fossil fuels, wreak havoc on underwater species and throw of the chemical balance of our oceans, making it dangerous for humans to swim.

Although the EPA has set regulations to reduce chemical dumping, the toxic waste created by power plants hasn't disappeared. Coal-fired power plants are reportedly the largest source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. Each year, these energy plants discharge billions of tons of poisonous waste, often containing arsenic, mercury and lead.

Consume less, conserve more

Reducing electricity use in your home - or going off the power grid with solar energy -can benefit the environment, conserve resources and save lives. Although your own energy saving adjustments may seem inconsequential, small steps become great leaps when multiplied by 7 billion.

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How Does Saving Energy Help The Environment - Save On Energy Blog

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Save energy, save the environment Although it may not be obvious, there's a direct connection between your energy use and the environment. When you consume less power, you reduce the amount of toxic fumes released by power plants, conserve the earth's natural resources and protect ecosystems from destruction.

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Take old things that you no longer use and change them in some way to make them useful again.

This is helpful because, things we would normally throw away can continue to be used and not end up in a landfill.

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During the past few months, many fast-food restaurants and even entire cities have pledged to ban plastic straws.

Plastic straws have quickly become a symbol of the world's unnecessary reliance on plastic. Even more, they have become a symbol of plastic's horrific effects on the environment.

Plastic straws cause pollution and damage to the environment during its entire lifespan. After all, plastic is made from oil (a non-renewable fossil fuel), and plastic pollution can harm or even kill a large variety of marine animals.

One way to reduce the impact of plastic straws on the environment is to simply stop using plastic straws: You can either drink directly from a cup, or use a reusable alternative to plastic.

Related: 12 Best Plastic Straw Alternatives (My 2020 Recommendations)

Reusable stainless steel straws are such an alternative. They are much better than plastics, for more than just the reason of benefiting the environment! Here are 8 benefits of stainless steel straws.

1) Safety & Ease of Use

There are many other alternatives to plastic straws, like glass and bamboo. However, stainless steel ones are still recommended. Here's why:

Glass straws may bring some stylishness and elegance to your dining table. However, they can easily break, especially when handled by kids. Even though the chance of glass straws breaking is unlikely, it's better to be safe than sorry!

What about bamboo straws, you may ask? They may be eco-friendly, but they are more likely to break, and harder to clean due to their uneven surface.

In comparison to bamboo and glass straws, stainless steel versions have a number of advantages. They are significantly more durable than both glass and bamboo straws, and safer as well.

And, in case you didn't know, stainless steel is also rust-proof. You won't have to worry about your reusable straws rusting or breaking after only a few uses!

2) Easy to Clean

I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say that we all hate to clean things, whatever they may be.

The good thing is that stainless steel straws are super easy to clean!

Just like other metal kitchenware, stainless steel straws are dishwasher-safe. Cleaning them is as easy as it can get.

All you need to do is rinse the straw after use, and then toss it into the dishwasher.

Apart from being dishwasher-safe, most stainless steel straws will come with a cleaning brush when you buy them. This makes it easy to clean the straw almost effortlessly.

Overall, you shouldn't have a problem with cleaning and maintaining stainless steel straws.

3) Uniqueness & Elegance

Everyone likes a set of elegant cutlery to top up your home dining experience.

Why not complete your kitchen's silverware set with a collection of shiny stainless steel straws?

Plastic (left) Vs. Stainless Steel Straws (right). Image courtesy of www.quotecatalog.com / CC BY 2.0

The uniqueness of stainless steel straws and their shiny appearance gives them a sense of elegance.

The shiny appearance of matching-colour cutlery and stainless steel straws looks amazing and makes for great aesthetic appeal.

4) Ease of Portability

Stainless steel straws have a sturdy metallic build. They can be easily packed and carried around wherever you go, whereas glass is particularly fragile in this aspect.

Furthermore, stainless steel straws are a perfect choice for those of us who love drinking fruit juices/smoothies at work. You can easily pack one and get it out for use in the office, or where ever you work.

5) Reusable

Manufacturing new plastic is quite cheap today. Petroleum, the source of plastics, is still abundant. That's partly why very few companies and governments care about the amount of plastic we use each day.

What's worse, plastic straws are designed to be used only once, and then thrown away. Over time, that has proved to be a disaster for the environment.

Stainless straws, on the other hand, are easily reusable and highly durable as well. Metal lasts much longer than plastic, and stainless steel straws can last for years if you keep them cleaned and maintained.

6) Eco-Friendliness

The process of making plastic products involves the release of toxic chemicals and fumes. These dangerous by-products eventually find their way into the earth's environment through air, water, and land pollution.

To make matters worse, if plastic straws are improperly disposed, they can make their way into lakes or oceans. There, plastic pollution harms marine wildlife and ecosystems.

For example, when ingested, plastic particles can be highly toxic to marine life. Larger particles can even clog the gills of fish or choke animals that mistake it for food.

When you use reusable straws, the majority of these negative effects can be completely mitigated. Pollution during the manufacturing process will be reduced because you continue to use the same reusable straw for a long time. There also won't be any risk of plastic pollution, since you aren't using plastic!

In this aspect, one benefit of stainless steel straws (and reusable straws in general) is that they are more environmentally friendly than plastic.

7) Less Waste in Landfills

Landfills everywhere, and without a doubt, the single largest component in them is plastic waste.

For instance, the world produces 335 million metric tons of plastic every year. Only a very small percentage of that gets recycled, with the rest either ending up in the ocean, or piling up in landfills.

Plastic can take 1000 years or even more to degrade and decompose. That's a whole millennium of leaching potentially dangerous pollutants into the Earth! This can harm our soil, water, and the atmosphere. And we haven't even begun discussing what an eyesore plastic waste is!

Single-use plastic straws are particularly contributing hugely to the landfill problem, and one way to reduce plastic straw waste is to use reusable stainless steel straws.

8) Less Overall Economic Cost

Plastic straws are cheaper than stainless steel alternatives when considered as single units. However, we need to look at the cost in the long-term to get the real picture.

Plastic straws are single-use items. We use a plastic straw once, throw it away, and then use new one when needed. Consider the number of straws you use in one year. What's their overall cost? Then, compare that with a single metallic straw that you can use and re-use for years.

Another way to look at this is the cost to the environment and the global healthcare system. Destroying the environment with landfills full of toxic non-biodegradable plastics and plastic-derived chemicals is one thing. But there is also the cost of their negative impact to the environment, air, water, animals, human beings, etc.

Have you ever thought of the health impact of toxic chemicals and fumes to humans? What about the money spent to train doctors and equip hospitals for diseases we can avoid? What about the amount of money spent by governments to clear landfills and dispose of plastic?

There are so many financial costs associated with the use of plastics. We can avoid, or at least reduce them, if we shifted to the use of plastic alternatives that are reusable.

Conclusion

From our discussion in this article, we've seen how great stainless steel straws are. We've compared them to glass, bamboo, and most importantly plastic.

We've also seen how bad plastic can be for our environment. We've seen the costs it can bring to the economy. Yet many of these negative effects can be avoided if we decided to use stainless steel straws. They're more eco-friendly, more durable, and have a better aesthetic value.

Make a decision to start using reusable straws today. Enjoy their great benefits over the other types of straws, or completely ditch straws altogether and just drink without a straw.

It's time we start taking care of Mother Earth.

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