Single Use Plastics are plastics that are used only one time and often for a short period of time. Some examples are plastic water bottles, plastic shopping bags, zip-lock bags and household cleaner bottles.
Why are They Harmful?
These plastics have a very short useful life and it uses a lot of natural resources to make them. Then they are often thrown away where they take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills. Those that are recycled use more natural resources in the process.
What Can You Do to Help?
Easy to do tips that will also save you money!
1. Get a reusable water bottle and use it! 2. Get reusable shopping bags that fit into your handbag or that you can easily carry from your car and use them! 3. Get reusable/cleanable zip-lock bags and reuseable containers to put your snacks into. 4. Get cleaners that come as a concentrate and reuseable plastic spray bottles. Then you can make cleaners over and over with just a small amount of concentrate and water from the faucet. 5. Did you know that you can get laundry detergent in sheets? That reduces a lot of plastic bottles from liquid laundry detergents.