I’ve been a scuba diver longer than I’ve been a designer, in the last decade I haven’t been to a beach that wasn’t littered with the putrid flotsam and jetsam of plastic rubbish. Even organic lettuce comes in a plastic bubble pack. We produce a staggering amount of waste plastics daily. It’s an avoidable evil, it just takes a little thought and commitment.

We live an idyllic life in our little, rural town.  When I head down to the city I’m always a bit stunned. There are just so many of us!  All of us eating; where does all this food come from? All the of us buying clothes, taking showers, driving cars, eating seafood, drinking bottled water, throwing stuff away! When you live with the masses do you can become immune to it’s immensity? We all belong to this enormous world community.  Every little action we command has a cause and effect on our world.

Nestlé recently made a visit to our town and decided that we’d make a nice place for a water harvesting project.  65 Million gallons of ground water pumped and trucked 24/7, 120 miles, over several mountain passes, to a bottling plant where it’s injected into plastic water bottles so that it can be trucked to stores and sold to people who have been fooled into buying it.  If you want to see a scary graphic about Nestlé’s water mining operation in our little valley CLICK HERE. Our community is up in arms, I figured hit Nestlé where it counts. If we don’t buy bottled water they might have to change their tune. Change, after all, is found in your pocket.  Plastic unfortunately is currently found everywhere.

A town in Australia that banned plastic water bottles.

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A woman who blogs on living plastic free

Chris Jordan, artist, Running the Numbers, -check this out!

Absolutely nothing to do with plastic just one of my weekly laughs.