I have been avoiding the use of plastics for a long time. I remember when I was a child going to the market with my mother, and sometimes with my grandmother. We never used plastic bags, we brought our own ones which we used every time. Supermarkets began introducing more and more plastic to preserve products and to make our lives easier (sic). Our lives are getting sicker and sicker with pollution (any kind: CO2, water, light, auditive), and we keep doing things the "easy" way. I wonder if my everyday awareness of the planet is helping it. It seems that people get trapped with marketing actions like not using plastic straws. What about plastic cups, containers, forks-knives-spoons, bags? Almost everything that we produce is disposable, it ends in the trash. We recycle just a very small fraction of disposable products. Wouldn't be more effective to pressure big corps and companies to use and produce less trash? Making a campaign just for plastic straws? C'mon, let's be real, we need, all of us, to change our habits and to begin pressuring those who produce trash, any kind, to look for alternatives. Yes, it's not difficult, I do my best everyday, but also I'm frustrated seeing the streets full of garbage, breathing car exhaust, not being able to see the stars or to smell the grass or to listen to birds.
