Safe Plastics, Healthy Ocean!!

safe plastics healthy ocean article. My questions. what plastics are safe? Other than buying unwrapped produce, how can I as a consumer not contribute to ocean toxic waste and help the environment? If I have to buy plastic-wrapped items is there any kind that's "safer"? I'm a HUGE fan of reusing containers and I do. yogurt containers, coffee cans, protein containers I rarely ever discard and reuse around office-work-homespace as a recepteacle for something else. How do we not become plastic paranoid?! I like buying strawberries from the grocery store but they come in that clunky plastic container that I'll discard! There should be a cool way to get solid good inexpensive food and items without resorting to plastic. Like a BYOB method. At grocery stores I simply don't ask for bags because they'r clunky and cumbersome. NOT having plastic is smoother easier and simply...for you as an individual and with the external ecology check it's MUCH healthier for hte environment. The fact that that ratio of plastic-to-fish-weigh had skyrocketed so much was frightening and saddening. We've got to seriously change this and the interviewer dude is right, I think it does start with "not-marketing" not doing outrageous prepackaging stuff. It's actually a cool feeling ot get back from grocery shopping and having got primarily almost all produce, and to reuse the peanut butter containers, and maybe some plastic wrapped around fish, but it's simpler and much safer for the environment. Everyone should have to read that awesome, harrowing, but poignant Earth Island article interview with the chemist-captain dude. Just to get a sense of where we've got to start moving for environmental conservation and healthy environmental experiences to cherish our Nature!

Like I have to go pick up a printer ink cartridge and that has plastic wrapped in it. I like Hansen's soda, but it comes in a can. I need to pickup this xyz product and it only comes wrapped in plastic. I feel pretty unsettled and think this "scare" articles are Great. Hey, it worked. I'm scared and saddened by the amount of plastic infestation in our oceans, but they need to attach a solution to this. All these articles always end with the tone of :"This is royalled F$@%ed up..and we're working on a solution." There needs to BE a solution attached to these articles because when a normal person (like me) reads them, they want to do something but can't really take any kind of action except feel saddened, frightened, and maybe frustrated by the foul pollutants in our oceans, in our fish, in our very food. So where's the solutions man? The solutions that individual can take on their own? This is a group endeavor but everyone can contirbute. I mean I can avoid purchasing plastic-wrapped items but sometimes it's a necessity and reusing plastics, too. But yeah, freaky stuff.

Also from a global POV yeah this a MASSIVE dangerous, harrowing, freak-out-city problem! But from a consumer POV. Where are the people marketing CHEAP, INEXPENSIVE products that have no environment-contaminating plastic wrapper and such? I know there's tuna brands that don't harm dolphins...great. But where's the equivalent of that kind of product that I can purchase instead that doesn't contain harmful plastics (that will ultimately recirculate back into our own body! Plastic goes into ocean, eaten by small fish, eaten by larger fish, we eat the larger fish that contains the plastic. F$@!ed up!)