P.S. Think about it

Hey readers! So here's a thing I've started because I'm sick of getting funny looks while I'm carrying a bin bag around my local streets while picking up litter. I've decided to launch this campaign and see if I can encourage other like-minded individuals to join me in fighting the litter problem in their own down time and encourage others to take a second look and normalise volunteering on every day of the week.  Honestly, I absolutely love volunteering and getting out and about to all sorts of landcare events; beach clean ups, weeding events, path care, etc. It's awesome! And you should do it too! Just google local landcare groups and get involved. But you don't need to go to an organised event or join an active group to help the environment, you can do it while you're walking the dog or just hanging out at your local park; no time limits, no specified locations, just you showing you care about all our environments, including streetscapes.  ...

Hi! This is just a super quick post to get you thinking and stimulate your own research, here goes:  It takes between 2 and 6 TIMES the amount of water contained in the bottle to make the plastic bottle itself.  To create bottled water products, the water is pumped, transported, packed, chilled, transported again, then held in store where more often than not it is also maintained chilled. All this takes an enormous amount of energy, oil, and greenhouse gas emissions before that cap even comes off. (choose zero waste products instead, biome has an AWESOME range) "But I recycle!"  Sorry, you're not off the hook either, recycling single use plastic (while WAY better than chucking it in the ocean or in landfill) is not the wonderful answer to plastic pollution we dream it to be. Recycling is not a magical process, again it takes resources to collect it, transport it, sort it, transport it again, process it and turn it into something new - each step of this...