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GIGO Diary, for 2008-03-12: Plastic bags a blight on landscape Columnist avoids plastic bags and refuses to buy anything in styrofoam unless she has to. Says good news is Wal-Marts help in recycling plastic bags, shrinking wrap, packing/popping bubble wrap . By Barbara Armitage GIGO Diary of a Recycler: Everyday we are going to follow my garbage to see just how close I can come to eliminating my contribution the landfills in America Today is Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Posted 2008-03-13 There is a growing movement world wide to reduce the number of plastic bags we all consume. In fact the plastic shopping bag may be a victim of its own success. Plastic shopping bags didnt really come into wide spread use until the 1980s and today we are using about 1 million bags per day world wide. Plastic bags and plastic sheeting are a blight on our landscape; know as urban tumbleweeds bags can be seen blowing in the wind in every county in the world. One of the most dramatic impacts is on marine life. About 100,000 whales, seals, turtles and other marine animals are killed by plastic bags each year worldwide, according to Planet Ark, an international environmental group. Many local governments in the U.S. are following Irelands lead and are considering what is know as a PlasTax in Ireland. PlasTax is about a 20 cent surcharge charged to the customer on each plastic shopping bag. Since its beginning in 2002 plastic bag use has dropped 90%. Heres the good news. Wal-Mart recycles plastic bags and plastic wrap. Think outside the recycle box here for a moment. When we say plastic bags we think of the shopping bags but dont forget about things like the dry cleaning bag, the plastic bag that the fruit came in, my cat litter is in a plastic bag inside a box I bet I get at least half a dozen plastic bags a day. The there is the plastic wrap type products that can be dropped off too like that bit of cellophane you covered a dish with. Please be sure that there are no food products sticking to them when you take them in as this will smell. Just drop off your plastic bags and wraps in one of those familiar bins that are in the front of every Wal-Mart store it doesnt get any simpler than this. FACT: Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas Here's what happened to the rest of the day's garbage. Recycle
The next largest will go to the Adair Recycling Center, 62 Service Road, Columbia, KY. Only a tiny amount will go into the landfill. REMINDER: Recycle 101 to be offered at Adair Extension OfficeEVENTS Barbara Armitage of the Garden Club and Kelli Bonifer of the Adair County Extension Service and and are collaborating to offer Recycle 101 on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 10:00amCT. A guest lecturer will be famed Kentucky environmentalist A.L. Sinclair. The seminar will train those who attend the ABC's of Recycling. The purpose of the course is to train Adair County more about living responsibly by recycling and reducing energy use. It will wrap up the Earth Day celebrations in April. The course is designed to train trainers who will in turn train neighbors until everyone in Adair County is a recycler. For more information contact Barbara Armitage at (270) 250-2979 or Kelli Bonifer at (270) 384-2317. The Adair Extension Service is located at 417 Fairgrounds Street, Columbia, KY. This story was posted on 2008-03-13 09:49:03
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