This is the first week of the rest of my life

Last monday, I read an artical about a plastic trash soup in the ocean:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html

Why is there 100 tons of plastic floating in the ocean? And then I threw away a used lipgloss container. Oh!!!!! I get it.

So, inspired by many other and better blogs on the same issue, this is my experiment to see how little plastic I can procure and discard for a month. One month! That's less time than it took me to get to expert level on rockband drums, gain 15 pounds in Spain, make a thousand paper cranes for my own amusement, create a fighting warrior internet pet...the list goes on. Sad to say, I've been a fool for lesser things. So for the next month, this is it!

My only rule: no new plastic. I will keep and use the plastic I already own. Also, I consider it fair game to dumpster dive, trash dig, solicite from someone who is about to throw something away, or otherwise save a piece of plastic from going into a landfill.


Here's the plastic count this week:

1 plastic bag from a taco truck (I gave the woman a reused bread bag and told her to put two bravo burritos with no wrapping inside the bag, no napkins and no hot sauce (plastic containers). She gave it back to me INSIDE another plastic bag. Gah!)

2 candy wrappers - 1 Mamba, 1 mini almond joy (damn the office candy jar)

2 plastic caps from my glass milk jugs purchased from PCC

1 tiny plastic bag from my floss, also from PCC (it said "no plastic packaging", liars, but thats better than the fully plastic container that most come in)