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This disgusting article made me feel ill. It’s a long read - but skim/read it at will, it’s really quite disturbing and informative.

Quick facts:

• Only 2 - 3% of all plastic is actually recycled - the process is too expensive
• It’s generally the plastics with 1’s and 2’s on the bottom which are regularly actually recycled and made into something new
• Many types of plastic are proven to be toxic to the reproductive systems of us, our children, our children’s children (if they can have them), etc.
• The one plastic item you threw out today may outlast your children on this earth
• All the plastic in our oceans is killing the marine life =(

What Brad and I will be trying to do about this:

• Choose glass over plastic whenever we can (glass can always be recycled)
• Choose reusable items (ie. handkerchiefs, cloth diapers, menstrual cups, cloth menstrual products, etc.)
• If it is necessary to buy plastic, try to buy those made with 1’s or 2’s
• Bring our cloth bags everywhere with us to avoid plastic bags
• Buy fresh foods as often as we can instead of pre-packaged foods, which are often packaged in plastics

Leave me a comment - what are you doing to reduce, reuse, and recycle?

Follow the link below to a post in my new blog hosted with Wordpress.com. I’ll continue to post my posts as links until … well, just read the post and it’ll explain it all!

New Blog!!

Hi everyone! Brad and I are currently setting up our website (we finally bought a domain!) at theschellingerhoudts.ca. We are figuring out where to host it (our friends have a server … we’re hoping to snaffoo [sp?] some space on theirs for now until Brad can get a server running here) and what to put on it. One of the things that will go on it is my blog - running through wordpress.org so I’m trying out the free blogging on wordpress.com first. Playing with themes (although there’s so many more available when you host your own as opposed to blogging on their .com site) and widgets and getting an overall feel for it before the official switch over. Oh, that’s right … no more long, ugly posts … now there’s a link for the rest of it!