“I brought you into a bountiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land and made My heritage an abomination.”  (Jeremiah 2:7)

Do you know that plastic containers are relatively late in the history of population usage?  Although invented in the late 1800s, plastic was not used commercially until the 1940s but was too expensive for use in the common household until the mid-1950s!  This fact always surprises the younger generations.  

Plastic containers offered people a light-weight option for packaging and carrying and is also more durable than glass or wood.  But most plastics can take from 20 to 500 years to degrade and become microplastics forever!  They clog our landfills and waterways for generations.

Tips for becoming a “plastic surgeon”:

I can highly recommend the following companies which you can check out online.

www.Dropps.com Which offers laundry and dish cleaning products that leave basically no footprint in our landfills or water ways.  I use the laundry products which come in dissolvable packs that are packaged in cardboard.  I am completely satisfied with their cleaning ability and you really only need to use one small packet per load, so it is economical, too!

https://TheEarthlingCo.com  This company offers hair products that also leave the tiniest amount of cardboard to recycle or add to your compost bin.  The shampoos are shaped like a ball of soap and packaged in a 3” x 3” cardboard box.  Have a ball trying out different scents.  Each ball of shampoo lasts for months and is great for travel!

https://www.simplyzero.co/pages/contact This LOCAL store called Simply Zero is a refillable store — 2 locations 1235 Vine St and 207 West Loveland Av.  Bring your own containers for laundry and dish detergent, liquid hand soap, hand sanitizer and more

–Terry David and Beth Jackson, God’s Green Team Contributors