Hello Bloggers,
Are you ready Long Island or anywhere else in the country ? Is anyone paying attention now that the leaves have fallen off most of the trees?
You don’t really have to look that hard. Just observe the side of any road, especially the Long Island Expressway. Go to the local park, the beaches, the soccer field, any parking lot, high school and college campus. Take a half mile walk from your home or place of business. What do you see everywhere?
PLASTIC.
Ubiquitous plastic water and Gatorade bottles, plastic grocery bags, plastic shrink wrap, plastic
deli containers. Plastic stuck in tree limbs, not-so-buried in bushes and thrown out like someone should clean up
after your mess. It accumulates year after year because, unlike most paper products, it won’t biodegrade (or go away), for hundreds of years. Unless, of course, if birds try to eat it and fall dead from the toxic combination of chemicals and fossil fuels and starvation.
Is this really what we want as a society? Does anyone, other than the plastic industry – I’ll bet their typing away already with their counter argument – like what they see?
There is a move to ban plastic bags. Our beautiful national parks like the Grand Canyon is facing a growing abundance of this insidious sight and litter. Everyone can help cut down on this pollution by bringing your daily water or drink in a re-usable container, use recycling bins for your plastic trash waste and bring your own bags when grocery shopping. These three habits alone are so simple.
I’m NOT writing this letter just to complain. How about starting a Long Island (or New York
It’s really not too much to ask, is it?
Robert Meinke
