Check out this Tedx talk from Beth Terry. In 2007 she committed to not buying any new plastic, and she has come pretty darn close. She has a website where she chronicles her efforts. Her talk is moving in many ways, most of all in its explanation of why her individual act matters.
As many of you know, I have been trying to decrease my plastic use for about the past year, and have decided to step this up as one of my 2012 Resolutions. It boggles the mind to think that we lived without plastic just 100 years ago, and now it is in almost everything we use. More
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