If you walk in to any retailer on the coast of Hyde, Dare, or Currituck you should not receive your purchases in a plastic bag. This is all thanks to legislation put in to place by former Senator Marc Basnight. The specific concern in this legislation is marine life, waterways, and marshes, but the bonus is it reduces our use of plastic and our landfills will thank us. The world is seeing growing momentum for the ban of plastic bags and the United States is finally starting to take notice and many municipalities are putting bans in place such as San Francisco, Santa Monica, Austin, LA, and the list is growing.
Although plastic bags are the most well known of the plastic villains they are certainly not alone. Plastic water bottles, food packaging, product packaging, disposable tableware, among others are all to blame for the mounting polymer piles in our landfills.
So, what to do? Recently, I watched an eye opening documentary called, Bag It This film is a great place to start if you want to reduce the plastic in your life.
Nancy
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Michelle
