This year’s Earth Day theme is Planet vs. Plastics. Here are some facts about plastic and tips to help you reduce plastic use.
What’s so bad about plastics?
Plastics are all around us
How to reduce plastic use
There are a couple of zero waste shops in the Metro area - Fulfillery in Takoma Park, MD and Trace in Vienna, VA. Bring your own containers to purchase bulk foods and personal care products. (And, closer to home, we have our fingers crossed that MOM's Organic Market will finally open sometime later this year in the Van Ness neighborhood. Other locations of this chain have a good variety of bulk items.)
Click here to learn more about the impact of plastic on the environment and take a quiz on your plastics knowledge. To learn more about the damage plastic is doing to the ocean, head to NNV's Virtual Speaker Series archive and watch Nick Mallos, Vice President of Conservation, Ocean Plastics at the Ocean Conservancy, speak about Ocean Plastic Pollution: Source to Solution.
Together, we can all take steps to improve the health of our planet. Happy Earth Day!
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