One million plastic bottles each minute

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

The picture in this blog isn't trash at a municipal dump. It's debris floating in the water. In July 2017, Forbes magazine reported that around the world 1,000,000 plastic bottles are purchased every minute. Ninety-one percent of those 1.4 billion plus bottles each day are not recycled. So much plastic ends up in the ocean that World Economic Forum experts forecast that by 2050 the plastic in the ocean will weigh more than the fish.

Sometimes, it seems easier to grab a bottled water. Could you remember to bring your own container instead? Could you ask theaters and concert halls to offer alternatives, even paper cups that patrons fill from a jug or faucet are gentler on the environment? For a week, can you get by without water in a plastic bottle? Let's give it a try.