If you enter the amounts of different types of plastic that you clean up into the Wildlife Impact Calculator, it will tell you how many animal lives would have been at risk, had those items made their way into the ocean and been ingested.
The worst offenders, though, are the goody bags. This year, my kids received them at Valentine's Day, Ramadan, Easter, Halloween, and many birthday parties. Every time they bring one home, they dump its contents on the living-room floor and pick through their treasures with glee. But soon enough, the tiny fire truck has lost its wheels and a fight has broken out over whose Care Bears keychain is cooler, though neither of my children has ever owned a key.
During the holiday season, you'll likely be giving and receiving loads of gift cards for your favorite shops, restaurants, and online retailers, but can these cards be recycled once the money is gone? Tossing a single gift card in the trash may not seem like a big deal, but these small bits of polyvinyl chloride (commonly known as PVC, the plastic resin used to make gift cards and other household items like CD cases) can really add up.
Perhaps you've placed an order and they're standing right outside your front door. Shiny. Pretty. Insulated bags loaded with yummy items. Silvery plastic padded bags are increasingly common in when food delivery and pick-up services for refrigerated and frozen items. While they seem to work nicely for delivering frosty food, the empties deserve attention. We're doing just that. We're featuring useful ideas for repurposing them as well as focusing attention on how they factor into the plethora of unnecessary plastic waste.
Skimping on the moisture component is a major sandwich-building no-no. No one likes biting into a dry sando. However, that moisture component means (shocker) wetness - and when water molecules get trapped with no place to go, it can lead to soggy bread. For this reason, ditch the plastic sandwich bags for wrapping and storing your sammies. Whether packing a lunch or storing sandwiches for later enjoyment, plastic sandwich bags and plastic clingfilm both trap moisture inside and cause the bread to become soggy.
From a distance, the structure appears as a luminous field, with density and porosity fluctuating depending on angle and light. The closer you look, the more it plays with your perception.
