Plastic Manners

We just came across the blog Plastic Manners. It's the documentation of one woman's year without (or drastically curbing) use of plastics. It's written with an absolutely engaging and eye-opening approach:

One particular blog entry shares photographs of Taina's "plastic tally" (pictured above). From month to month, all of her acquired plastics are carefully laid out and photographed. Her careful documentation of the plastics she used throughout each month is in such wild contrast to the more common over-consumption of plastics.

If you're interested in cutting down on plastic use, read Tiana's helpful tips on alternatives to plastic here.

Her story is a true inspiration to us to be more discriminating when it comes to our decisions with regard to daily plastic use. We've not come across a greater wealth of information on the importance of moving away from plastics than at this blog. Have a look for yourself at : Plastic Manners.

(Images: Plastic Manners)

Comments (11)

Thank you for posting this! People need to wake up and realize that driving a Prius won't solve our oil dependency problem. We have to start reducing the amount of petroleum based plastics we use as well.

Ah she is giving her pets decent food! wonderful site.

and eating less food that was grown with petroleum based fertilizer... and buying less thing that were shipped with gas guzzling vehicles... the list goes on. we live in a culture with a chemical dependence. there is no viable way to participate in society without having some sort of reliance on oil. argh.

Very interesting and eye opening. However, I am startled that anyone this interested in environmentalism would be condoning the consumption of animal products. Livestock is a gigantic strain of the environment... by some estimates cattle farming alone is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases.

Not everyone is cut out to be a vegetarian, livc.

I am so thrilled to see you responding to readers' suggesting. Of course, I'm assuming you posted this just for me in response to my request that you post more advice about green living in a world of plastics ;-) Whether or not you did, thank you!!! It brightened my day to see this post before heading into work.

Keep 'em coming and keep up the amazing work! I know there are so many of us who look forward to our daily AT emails.

I second gakusei. I for one have absolutely no interest in being vegetarian--not even a little bit--but still want to reduce using plastics in my daily life.

Thanks for this post AT!

I must agree with gakusei and redlynx - not everyone wants to become a vegetarian. Nothing wrong with becoming a vegetarian but honestly getting us here on apartmenttherapy.com to stop eating meat won't cure the greenhouse effect or really make a significant improvement. I'm not completely sold on being able to get every bit of protein and nutrients just from vegetables as well.

As it's true that we can't actually live without plastic.... It is also possible to reduce some of it in our daily lives...

I live in a country where plastic recycling is pretty much non-existing due to the size of the population and the economy. But every day more and more people are taking new steps in reducing plastic use.

We all know it up front (or in the back of our minds) it won't solve the problem, but it'll somehow slow it.

To everyone it's own...but.... being a vegetarian is going to save the world???!!!! i don't think so!!! Just eat whatever you want just try to get it as unprocessed as you possibly can.

Just do your part (if you feel like it.... you're no even entitled to do so if you don't want to). Being environmentally responsible doesn't mean you need to advocate for it or carry signs at any G-6, 9? (what is the number now?)

Our part as regular citizens is to keep it simple and logical and effective.

The amount of resources it takes to produce a hamburger is rather staggering. Cutting back the amount of meat you consume is good for the environment. It's just a fact!