Plastic make the world go 'round

And it goes around the world. Unfortunately it finds its way into the ocean. I was reading an article in the Sierra Club magazine today and it talked about the giant mass of trash in the Pacific Ocean and the life cycle of plastic. Every year in the U.S. 12.5 million tons of plastic is unaccounted for (Plastic that doesn't reach the dump or to the recycling facility). That's a lot. I'm glad that where we live it's not too difficult to recycle. In Utah, they didn't have recycle bins for pick up or somewhere we could take it to. Right now we collect our recyclables during the week and take it to a recycle center five minutes away. I makes me feel good that I can do something to lessen (although only to a small degree) the garbage being spewed out by our society.

Earth Hour Followup

So Saturday night was fun. For some reason BeeBoo was still up when 8:30 came so she got to be a part of it too. We didn't go completely dark. We only turned on the light for where we were at and we tried to stay in the same room. BeeBoo told us not to turn off all the lights. Even though we didn't go completely dark, I think that we try to be conservative everyday to make up for it.

Earth Hour

I found this a while ago and now that I have a blog I can tell you about it. I think this is a great idea. Just turn your lights off for one hour on Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm. It's a little thing to do, but if a lot of people do it then it makes a huge impact. I think it's cool that there are global initiatives like this. Even though we don't have any contact with people from all around the world, we can participate in something important together.