On EarthDay, here’s a game plan to banish plastic from your life
There’s plenty of work to do to reduce our use of plastic: The U.S. has one of the lowest recycling rates of any developed nation, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit based in New York.
“In addition, bottled water containers are the most common item in curbside recycling programs, recycled at a rate of 53.9%,” she added. BYOS If you like using straws to sip on a soda or a seltzer, consider investing in one you can bring to restaurants yourself. There are metal straws in stainless steel or copper that you can buy easily at major retailers like Amazon AMZN, +1.30% Target TGT, -0.92% and Walmart WMT, -0.44% Glass straws are also an option, like these made from “ultra-durable beaker glass” from CB2.
Bring your own bento box when you eat out Pack it up yourself: If you’re in a takeout rut, you’re not alone. Food and the packaging that surrounds it makes up almost 45% of all the materials in U.S. landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And that all adds up: Americans throw out about $165 billion worth of food every year, according to NRDC.
To be better for the environment than a single-use plastic bag, polyethylene bags must be used four times, a polypropylene bag must be used at least 11 times, and a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times, according to a study by the U.K. Environment Agency.
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