Can you live plastic free?

Question

I was looking around the internet and i bumped into this one blog where this one lady called "EnviroWoman" is making a pledge to live plastic free for a year. after reading her blog it made me realize how difficult it is to get something without it having plastic on or in it. so the question is will u guys begin to reduce your use of plastic and push for alternatives now that plastic pollution in the environment is becoming a bigger and bigger issue?

http://plasticfree.blogspot.com/2007/06/plastic-free-cfl-light-bulbs-2.html

Answer 1

I don't see how it's possible.

Answer 2

You can if you're d**k Proenneke.

Answer 3

No.  Plastic is used for many things, many of which we consider to be absolutely essntial. such as many of the parts of the computer that I am using now.  Plastic is an absolutely essential part of virtually every aspect of modern technology.

Answer 4

Why would I want to?  Plastic is not evil, it is an inanimate object.  It is the wasteful practice of creating "disposable" products which is doing the harm.  Plastic does not choose to be thrown in the trash rather than recycled.  A reused bag made of cloth has the same effect on the environment as a reused bag made of plastic, it is only the disposal that has a detrimental effect.

Answer 5

Well people have managed for many thousands of years to live with out plastic .

and we only got into that the last hundred years or soo

your great grandmother was living with out plastic

Answer 6

PERMACULTURE ANSWER:

Whilst plastic is not evil the scale of its use is the environmental problem. Plastic production is highly unsustainable, presuming that we are talking about the oil based plastics and not the new bio-starch products.

If I go to the supermarket and bring home my shopping in plastic carrier bags, they are ephemeral so they are quickly disposed of. The chances are that the bag will end up in landfill after one use.

Whilst cotton bag production is also unsustainable it is generally used many many more times, generally for a number of years. And are not non-biodegradable. People do not tend to tie their other rubbish into a cloth bag to send it to landfill. Cotton bags will compost in any home composter.  

Therefore a reused bag made of cloth clearly does not have the same detrimental effect on the environment as a reused bag made of plastic (or many). The environmental impact  of plastic bag disposal is magnified because of the number of the bags that are used.

A wicker basket would be the obvious thing,  to cut down on this massive use on single-use plastic carrier bags. Willow can be grown on sewage outfall which as we know is an environmental pollutant. There are no ENVIRONMENTAL costs of processing/production of a willow basket. It is a local economy that does not use heat, beat or treat. It could be grown in the supermarket car park dealing with the waste from the toilet block. In Permaculture we call this zoning and edge. It also demonstrates redundancy of function when used in sewage treatment.

Willow is highly sustainable, from willow coppice and returns to the ground without trace.

People object to carrying small cotton bags around. Whilst willow baskets are the obvious solution, how do we persuade people to give up their free plastic carrier bags in return for a bulky purchased willow basket.

Answer 7

yea I can live without plastic, is it the past centuries poeple used plastic for everyday use no.we can also use paper bags instead of plastic and it is also diposable,but we need to cut of trees.It's better than plastic because it is environmental friendly

Answer 8

Why should I?