PLASTIC

Have you ever thought about why legislators are trying to prevent a ban on plastic bag use? Plastic is manufactured by oil companies  with the chemical BPA and generates billions of dollars in revenue every year. Once plastic is made, it can never be broken down. It NEVER goes away. The plastic bag you used 10 years ago is floating around somewhere in the ocean getting ingested by animals. There are millions of tons of plastic floating around our oceans and affecting our animals and our planet. Plastic is a transport for harmful chemicals which cause cancer, diabetes, and other illnesses. The fish that you eat for dinner has very likely been contaminated by these toxins because of the high amount of plastic in our oceans. 

BPA is everywhere. The receipt the cashier handed you was covered with BPA and is now in your body. BPA also contains estrogen. Girls are starting puberty at a younger age because of the high amounts of estrogen in plastic which we drink water from every day.

Anyway you look at it, it is affecting our health, our animals, and our environment.   STOP USING PLASTIC. I didn’t know any of this until I watched the documentary Plastic Paradise. They go in an in-depth look at where all the plastic we use ends up and how it is affecting our community. It even shows high ranking officials at these oil companies trying to lie about how the plastic is not doing any harm. 

I’m sure 95% of the population is like me and doesn’t know just how harmful plastic is. Next time you go to the grocery store, do not use plastic bags. It starts with us as consumers and the more people that don’t use plastic, the less there will be a need for it. If everyone can make at least one simple change like not using plastic bags at the grocery store, it will reduce the amount of waste we create for the planet. Everything ends up somewhere so please think about what you are buying before you do it.