Posted by Joe
| September 21, 2009
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A new film, No Impact Man, follows Colin Beavan as he completely eliminates his personal impact on the environment for a year. It meant eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. No elevators, T.V., cars, busses, airplanes, toxic cleaning products, electricity, no material consumption and no garbage.
I don't want to know what he did when he needed to use the restroom, but that's another matter. You can watch the movie or learn more about Colin here.
So that got me thinking about my own carbon footprint--and I want to know about yours. Where does your plastic go? While the popularity of Nalgene and non-plastic water bottles are on the rise, a majority of Americans still use and dispose of a large amount of plastics on an everyday basis.
We're talking plastic bags at the grocery store, packaged chicken, trash bags. If you think about all the little things you and your family throw away and waste daily the amount can be staggering.
Watch the below video about what the call "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch," an area in the Pacific Ocean polluted with plastic that they say is 10-million square miles, bigger than the continental United States.
Then I want to know -- Where does your plastic go? How do you reduce your impact on the environment if you do at all? And how far would you or wouldn't you go to protect the environment? Sound off the in comments.
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