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No more plastic…. anything
9:55AM ON
04/22/2008
BY
Beth Comery
This will be my hippie-dippy earth day contribution. No one who has read a description of the North Pacific garbage gyre (two vortices really) remains unchanged. ‘Polymers are Forever’ by Alan Weisman first appeared as an article in Orion Magazine. It was later incorporated into his excellent book The World Without Us and maybe you saw him on The Daily Show. So, get the plastic shopping bags out of your life anyway. Just get a couple of totes and leave them in your car. It’s easy. Now, how am I supposed to buy shampoo?
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5 Comments on “ No more plastic…. anything ”
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:39AM
Jef Nickerson Says:
Where do I leave my tote bags if I don’t have a car?
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:57AM
carla Says:
ummm… how about we get rid of the car, too?
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April 22nd, 2008 at 12:09PM
Matthew Lawrence Says:
there’s places that sell shampoo in bulk, where you can just reuse the same bottles and get fancy brands for like $4 a bottle.
just not around here, sadly.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 3:26PM
Beth Comery Says:
I’d love to get rid of my car. In my own defense I walk a lot. I have a friend with an electric bicycle that is the coolest thing and you don’t even have to register it. I really want one of those. I hope someone does that shampoo thing here soon.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 8:15PM
carla Says:
I’m no cyclist maniac (I can barely make it up any Providence hills on mine), but I do think the electric bicycle is ironic, especially in a discussion about conservation and reducing one’s “carbon footprint” on earth day.
that garbage whirlpool should be a theme park and a mandatory field trip for all schoolchildren… who will have to get there by fashioning some sort of sustainably-harvested wooden viking ship, on which they will paddle out themselves.
clearly I don’t believe in conserving run-on-sentences haha.
xoxo
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