Esther Collier

Picked up my plastic today and yesterday and used reusable cutlery and dishes on our road trip. A plethora of straws beside rest stops. 

While canoeing yesterday I found two fishhooks with plastic flies lying right where children’s bare feet would wander and a long line of nylon fishing wire and the inevitable plastic cup from a fast food place and plastic ‘disposable’ water bottle. Sigh. 

Plastics pick up today involved a walk around the block. They are farther and farther apart. Good thing. ITV was too dark to get a good picture - but yesterday’s included far too many water bottles. Only clean ones can be recycled. Sad. 

So I’d i don’t order takeout can I check off that I used my own containers?  My plastic count increases.  I know that paper isn’t plastic but sometimes I pick up all litter in the area. 

Found my plastic on the way to the bus stop yesterday. Evie, Bryce, and I took the bus instead of driving and refused a free balloon and had our poutine and free fruit popsicle served in the dish I carried with me and ate using our own cutlery!

Plastics everywhere.  Once, I picked up some on a bike ride, thinking I would drop them off st the bus shelter garbage, only to find out after I gathered them that there was no garbage, so I tried to stuff them into the larger bag I had collected, only to have it spill water and what looked like partially digested food into my shoe (gag!  Gag!!), and then I had to ride home with it only to be stopped by a train, so I had to cycle a longer way around!  Needless to say, my shoes and I had a shower together as soon as I got home. 

Evie and I were together today and I loved it when she called me over to show me the plastic she had spotted on the ground. 

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I have been very faithful on the five pieces of plastics. But I was at a restaurant and used two of those creamers without thinking. Habits are hard to break. 

This  was today’s plastic cache. Who are these ignorant pet owners?!