14 Ways to Break Your Plastic Habit

I knew I had a plastics problem. We all do, right? You’ve heard the statistics: one million plastic bottles sold every minute. Eighteen billion pounds of plastic tossed in the ocean each year. But if you’re like me, you’ve shuddered at the stats, then ordered in lo mein and thought, At least I use a tote. This time I wondered, What does my plastics problem actually look like? So for a week I kept every piece of disposable plastic I used while eating or cooking. It was not a small pile. I used so much plastic without realizing it, which means that if I actually thought about it, I knew I could do better. And it means you can too. —Meryl Rothstein, features editor

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