Discardable Plastics John Parker

John Parker

Plastic is one of the most essential items in America today, we use it to package things, we use it to carry things, heck we even put it our house as a layer of insulation. I personally didn't have a very hard time with this challenge because I didn't go home to see how my family does with consuming plastic. I stayed here and managed to keep track of every piece of plastic I ever used and it was quite shocking how much I used. I collected a total of 24 Gatorade bottles, a few plastic containers of turkey that I used to make sandwiches and a plastic bag of Reese's that I had over break. In order to save plastic on these materials, what I did was I came up with some solutions to not use as many Gatorade bottles because that was my main problem. What I did was instead of buying the plastic bottles, I bought a small jug of the powdered Gatorade mix and I bought One of those Gatorade sport bottles at Dunhams and I mixed water with the powder in the same bottle multiple times in order to conserve plastic. This in turn also saved me about 25 to 30 dollars as well since I only spent 3 dollars on the Gatorade bottle and 5 dollars for the powdered mix of Gatorade. My solution to my minor plastic problem with turkey was that instead of buying it in the package, I got it fresh in the deli and used my own tin foil wrap instead of the plastic bags that they give you. I really liked this experience because it showed me how much plastic I use, and this is at college, I don't want to know how much I would use if I actually went home. Another thing that I had trouble with was my yogurt containers, I really couldn't find a substitute for what I could do for the plastic yogurt containers so if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it.