A YEAR WITHOUT PLASTIC

MAY 7th, 2010

Few things are as pervading in everyday life as plastic. It’s unlikely that most have us will have gone a day this year without using plastic in some shape or form. This is why Vancouver based environmentalist Taina’s decision to go a year without plastic is a particularly impressive undertaking. Explaining her decision, Tania says she became ‘grossed out, pissed off, and overwhelmed by the presence of plastics around me.’  Since January she has been living a plastic free existence.

Sounds pretty impressive, although in her set of self-imposed rules she has allowed for ‘touching plastics where they exist in my everyday. For example, a bus seat.’ Despite this blatant cop-out, Tania is to be saluted for her commitment. For more information about the projects and the difficulties she has encountered in her quest, head over to her plasticmanners blog. There is, at the time of writing a nice piece about a guerrilla stunt in Vancouver involving a giant plastic six-pack ring and various statues…

Source: plasticmanners

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