Comments on: The Discovery of a Challenge: A Guest Post from Carrick Bartle http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/ Learn to live life with less plastic... for the health of our bodies, our oceans, our planet. I don't buy new plastic. Join me on my plastic-free journey. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mae West http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-25305 Mae West Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:42:18 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-25305 Ummmmm ... but you're using a plastic jar to hold your deodorant? Just sayin' Ummmmm … but you’re using a plastic jar to hold your deodorant?

Just sayin’

]]> By: Braedy Tritthart http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6373 Braedy Tritthart Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:09:08 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6373 I too live in Canada and came from farming communities. I've see what happens to the plastic from wrapping the bales. It's torn off and left to float around the fields. I've been hiking and found hundreds of feet of this stuff caught in the trees and shrubs at the edges of the bushes. Small holes are missing from it - possibly from tearing, possibly from being eaten by little critters looking for an easy meal.<br /><br />It's sad what we've come to. Why are we so hung up on this thing called plastic? Why do insist on wrapping every little thing in it? I too live in Canada and came from farming communities. I've see what happens to the plastic from wrapping the bales. It's torn off and left to float around the fields. I've been hiking and found hundreds of feet of this stuff caught in the trees and shrubs at the edges of the bushes. Small holes are missing from it – possibly from tearing, possibly from being eaten by little critters looking for an easy meal.

It's sad what we've come to. Why are we so hung up on this thing called plastic? Why do insist on wrapping every little thing in it?

]]> By: Amber http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6371 Amber Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:41:21 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6371 The toxins in plastic are rather horrifying. I have small kids and thinking that it could be damaging to them is really upsetting to me.<br /><br />It sounds like you're doing a lot to reduce your plastic consumption. Thanks so much for sharing your steps with us. The toxins in plastic are rather horrifying. I have small kids and thinking that it could be damaging to them is really upsetting to me.

It sounds like you're doing a lot to reduce your plastic consumption. Thanks so much for sharing your steps with us.

]]> By: Carrick http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6369 Carrick Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:34:19 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6369 Yay! Thanks for the support, guys! :D Yay! Thanks for the support, guys! :D

]]> By: Clif http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6368 Clif Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:01:21 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6368 WTG Carrick, my most impressive anti-plastic act (in my mind, anyway) is getting off the grocery bag routine. I can now say that I never use a plastic grocery bag and, if I forget my regular cloth bag (kept in my backpack) I force myself to hand carry whatever I buy.<br /><br />Olivia, I have noticed that agri-plastic thing as well. You, being a neighbor to that farmer, would be in a good position to just mosey over and ask what happens to the plastic when the hay is used. It would also be interesting to know how it pays for itself - what did he do before he used plastic and why did he give it up? WTG Carrick, my most impressive anti-plastic act (in my mind, anyway) is getting off the grocery bag routine. I can now say that I never use a plastic grocery bag and, if I forget my regular cloth bag (kept in my backpack) I force myself to hand carry whatever I buy.

Olivia, I have noticed that agri-plastic thing as well. You, being a neighbor to that farmer, would be in a good position to just mosey over and ask what happens to the plastic when the hay is used. It would also be interesting to know how it pays for itself – what did he do before he used plastic and why did he give it up?

]]> By: PureMothers http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6367 PureMothers Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:58:48 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6367 Well-written guest post! It's so refreshing to hear of others attempts to reduce plastic. The more we share what and how we're doing it, the easier it will seem to other people. I thought it would be hard at first - and some things still are- but some have become second nature. I mean, if our g-grandparents lived without plastic, why can't we? At least disposable plastic for the time being!<br /><br />Great post! Well-written guest post! It's so refreshing to hear of others attempts to reduce plastic. The more we share what and how we're doing it, the easier it will seem to other people. I thought it would be hard at first – and some things still are- but some have become second nature. I mean, if our g-grandparents lived without plastic, why can't we? At least disposable plastic for the time being!

Great post!

]]> By: Olivia http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6365 Olivia Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:08:20 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6365 I live in a farming commmunity in Canada but I suspect that the following practice is widespread: this morning, as I looked out my window into the neighbouring field, I observed large rolls of hay being "packaged" into plastic. There is some sort of machine that wraps the plastic around the hay as it is slowly pushed forward. The plastic is not wrapped around the hay ONCE but SEVERAL times. I was horrified. I would estimate that the roll of hay was well over 300 metres long - and this was only one roll of several. It occurred to me that there are probably thousands and thousands of farmers who preserve their winter supply of hay this way. There would be more plastic in that one long roll of hay than I could ever use in my lifetime. I have seen hay wrapped this way for many years but I guess I never connected the dots before. What do we do about this sort of thing? I live in a farming commmunity in Canada but I suspect that the following practice is widespread: this morning, as I looked out my window into the neighbouring field, I observed large rolls of hay being "packaged" into plastic. There is some sort of machine that wraps the plastic around the hay as it is slowly pushed forward. The plastic is not wrapped around the hay ONCE but SEVERAL times. I was horrified. I would estimate that the roll of hay was well over 300 metres long – and this was only one roll of several. It occurred to me that there are probably thousands and thousands of farmers who preserve their winter supply of hay this way. There would be more plastic in that one long roll of hay than I could ever use in my lifetime. I have seen hay wrapped this way for many years but I guess I never connected the dots before. What do we do about this sort of thing?

]]> By: Jacquelyn http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6364 Jacquelyn Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:28:44 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6364 Nice guest post. I feel such a sense of community reading this and knowing that other people are going through the same process of baby steps as I am, trying to reduce our impact. Thank you! Nice guest post. I feel such a sense of community reading this and knowing that other people are going through the same process of baby steps as I am, trying to reduce our impact. Thank you!

]]> By: Jenni http://myplasticfreelife.com/2009/06/discovery-of-challenge-guest-post-from/comment-page-1/#comment-6363 Jenni Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:49:54 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2009/06/the-discovery-of-a-challenge-a-guest-post-from-carrick-bartle/#comment-6363 Great guest post!! Great guest post!!

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