Recycle this Book by Dan Gutman

Author:Dan Gutman [Gutman, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89176-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2009-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

YOUR COMMUNITY

DID YOU KNOW?

One bus can carry as many people as forty cars.

The average U.S. citizen uses over one hundred gallons of water per day. About thirty-six states anticipate water shortages by 2016.

Up to seventeen trees are required to make one ton of paper.

THE SAFE WAY TO CARRY ON

Norma Fox Mazer

I am seriously worried about the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that grows our food. In short, I'm seriously worried about the world we live in and what's happening to it. A few years ago, our local supermarket began accepting plastic bags for recycling. Plastic bags compress amazingly well, and every few weeks, I would dump a fresh clump of them into the recycle bin. And walk away, smugly virtuous, convinced I was doing my bit to save the environment.

Well, it was a good thing to do, no doubt about that. Still, I grew uneasy about the sheer number of bags I was accumulating and recycling. Plastic bags—and not just mine—seemed as endless as grains of sand on the beach. I started reusing mine around the house to line wastebaskets and to cover food in the refrigerator. Recently, though, I read an alarming statistic about the oil needed to make these bags and the evil ways they can harm the environment, especially the ocean, where whales, dolphins, seals, and sea turtles mistake the plastic for food, eat it, and die.

I've made a New Year's resolution to break the plastic bag habit. To do away entirely with plastic bags in my life. After all, I grew up without plastic bags, as did my sisters and my parents and my aunts and my uncles. So now I never go anywhere without my backpack and cloth bags to carry whatever needs to be packed or carried. No, I lie. I still forget at times and find myself accepting plastic. I'm working on it. I intend to make the no-plastic-bag rule so ingrained that going into a store without a cloth bag or backpack will seem as dangerous as driving without a seat belt. Which it is.

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