ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN LIFE,
ESPECIALLY NOTHING.

-- MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

CELEBRATING EARTH DAY

A bagful of  bags & wrappings made from
 non-recyclable plastic.

Today is Earth Day and a fitting way to celebrate is to
commit to doing our small part to save the planet.

For example, we could start by reducing the use of plastic.

Plastic, in every shape & size, is part of our daily lives. The
food we eat and drink is sold in plastic, medicines are
dispensed in plastic bottles,  and even clothing these days is
made with recycled plastic.

The problem is that plastic takes centuries to degrade and it is
choking our landfills.

One way of cutting back on plastic, for example, is to buy
food or juices that are sold in glass containers, rather than plastic.
Once the product is consumed, those glass jars make fine
storage units for leftovers and all sorts of things around the house.

Washing detergents usually are marketed in plastic but some
come in cardboard containers; choose those instead of plastic.

You may not be able to do this with all foods but to the extent
that you can, lower the amount of plastic that you bring into
the home. If more people did that, companies might become alert
to the fact that, environmentally speaking, cardboard and glass
are more friendly than plastic.

Stop buying single-use plastic water bottles. Instead, carry your
own little glass bottle and if you take it to the office, refill it at
the water cooler. It would be grand if supermarkets and restaurants
were to provide a service refilling glass bottles with water for a
small price so if you are out on the street, there would be no need
to buy water sold in plastic bottles.

These of course are small gestures but if they were repeated daily
by millions of people then we would begin to make a dent in
the problem of plastic.

Here are some statistics to consider:

-- About 300 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide each
year.

-- Of the plastic that is thrown away, an estimated 7 million ends
up in the ocean each year.

-- Americans used around 50 billion plastic water bottles a year
yet the U.S. recycling rate for plastic is 23%.

Plastic, plastic everywhere. Isn't it time we cut down on it?

That's the secret,

you follow the words.

Bernard Malamud,

The Tenants 

 ☛ GOOD PRODUCTS: LUIGI VITELLI SPAGHETTI

       This is a tasty, every day brand of pasta that has the virtue
       of being quite inexpensive. If you shop at Pueblo stores in San
       Juan you can find it in the dry pasta section for 99 cents.
     
       Buon appetito!


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