You’re thirsty, and you want to grab a quick, convenient bottle of water and quench your thirst.  Stop. Take a deep breath.  This is your opportunity for action; through inaction.  Make a mini-commitment to rid the world of wasteful plastic. Don’t reach into that cooler and pull out another plastic bottle.  If you don’t have your own container, buy a paper cup, not a giant plastic cup, a paper cup, and fill up from the store sink or from the water in the soda fountain machine. It gets tough for me at this point, because I love fountain sodas.  But, if water is what you’re after, the fountain machine is a great place for that.

Tomorrow you can bring your own bottle.  Once you become aware of all the plastic waste you use on a regular basis, you will start to freak out.  Plastic awareness will become like a new religion for you.  At least I hope it will.  Perhaps, you will also start pointing it out to your friends. Action through inaction.  Go home, put the money you would have spent on bottled water into a jar. At the end of the year, take yourself for a swim in an ocean you helped to clean up.  Good things will start to happen.  It’s really just that simple.

They keep making it, cause we keep buying it.

Don’t Buy It Anymore!