Freespirits, Freestylin and Nature

When you see a plastic bag blowing across the road in front of you do you give it a second thought?  Every year an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used by consumers worldwide.  That breaks down to about one million per minute.  Does anyone see a problem there?  Many marine animals and sea life die each year from eating plastic bags.  They do not biodegrade but break down into smaller toxic pieces that contaminte the soil and water systems and eventually end up in the food chain. ( Facts taken from Reusablebags.com)  BYOB =  Bring Your Own Bag.  Take reusable and sustainable bags to the store with you to pack your items in.  It is so simple and no more flimsy bags breaking on you when you are carrying your items into the house!

This is only a small part of the grave injustices we are committing against our Earth…..our home.  If we would only stop to think, and more abundantly CARE, we could stop this from happening.  A conscious effort in the beginning leads to a lifetime of good habits.

Some other simple things we can all do are these.  Replace your existing encandescent light bulbs with energy efficient CFLs or compact flourescent lightbulbs.  Incandescent bulbs use only 10% of their energy to emit light, the other 90% being wasted as heat.   For each kilowatt of energy used, power plants release an average of 1.34 pounds of carbon dioxide into the environment.  The impact of replacing an incandescent bulb with a CFL is a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by  over 700 pounds over the life of the bulb.  The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that if every home switched to CFLs in just ONE room CO2 emissions could be reduced by  over one trillion pounds.  Carbon dixoide plays a big role in the problem of global warming.

Buy rechargeable batteries and recycle them at the end of their life.  Thousands of tons of household batteries are thrown away each year and these ultimately leak chemicals into the ground which is deadly for wildlife and the ecosystem.

 Just think before you act.  That would save so much horrible pollution to our environment!!