National Blog Posting Month

It's week threee---eee!

Hey plastic haters! I've blogged about my (small this week) plastic sacrifice over at my blog (http://hypermetamorphic.blogspot.com).

But I'm wondering...How's this whole plastic-jettisoning-project working for you? Are you psyched? Frustrated? Discouraged?

When I visit the "regular" grocery store and walk down an aisle filled with rows and rows of plastic packaging, and multiply them in my head by the thousands of aisles just like them all over the country (and other countries) and think about all the warehouses filled with even more plastic crap ready to restock all those loaded shelves....I get pretty depressed.

But, as Mischa says, just because you can't change everything doesn't mean you can't change something. So I keep on keeping on. Refusing bags at the grocery store, and telling the cashier WHY. Lugging glass bottles back to the store when we buy more milk. Ignoring entire swaths of groceries that we used to buy because they're packaged in plastic. And hoping that more people are doing the same.

So how are you doing?

Tags: depression, plastic-induced, three, week

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Permalink Reply by boogiemum on November 17, 2007 at 5:00am: This week I have committed to eliminating plastic from our Friday night tradition...

BTW, did you mention you are getting your milk in GLASS bottles? Where ? How? I would love to do that, but wasn't aware this was an option! Please help a sista out :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim on November 17, 2007 at 11:00am: I've been doing a lot of thinking and talking with my friends and family. My nature is really one of trying to be more aware of what I'm doing and build community with those around me. In the short term it help me to prepare for change and in the long term it helps keep me on target. Yesterday morning, at breakfast with my women friends, we talked about how so many people we know suffer from a disease of "affluence" - buying too much of what they don't need and replacing items with more-better items. Later that evening, one of the women at breakfast sent me this link: Consumed: Is our consumer society sustainable?

My goal over the next several weeks is to figure out what I can do to make more change in my life, household, choices... to reduce what I generate to the growing wastefulness in this country/world. I've already convince my partner-in-crime (i.e. my spouse) to participate and by having my friends engaged - they will bring it up every Friday! - it will help me stay the course. As I start the New Year, I plan to have a list of 52 things I am going to do to.

I know somethings will just happen because we are more aware. Small steps. For example: my husband likes yogurt and always has some in the refrigerator. I talked with him about reducing the plastic we bring into the house. He reminded me that it's mostly recyclable ("yeah, still" I said.) The other day when he returned from shopping, he had a large yogurt container instead of the 12 single size containers he usually buys. He commented that he might even try making yogurt like he use to.

My small steps this week:
1. Shopped only at the Co-op.
2. Refused bag for books at Borders.
3. Found three recipes for pita to try to eliminate plastic pita bags.
4. Working on ideas to re-use plastic in art projects.; ▶ Reply to This