I can't stop thinking about plastics #4...until I started doing this blog and the research behind it I had no idea that you could only recycle #4's at the bins outside of grocery stores. I just assumed, living in the second largest city in the U.S, that if something had a recycle symbol on it, I could put it in my bin. So make sure you are looking for #4's (mostly plastic bags and plastic wrappers), keeping them all together and taking them to the grocery store. I also did a little research on ziplock bags. It's hard to get a solid answer, but it looks as if these too can be dropped with your plastic grocery bags as long as you cut out the zipper. I will try to get some more concrete information.
And just something to think about... it is estimated that plastics take roughly 1000 years to break down in a landfill, but just 10-20 years when exposed to air and sunlight. It's clear we need to rethink how we dispose of the trash we have disposed of. You know, when you throw it away and the truck comes and makes it "magically disappear."
totally depressing environmental fact:
plastic is petroleum based, and it’s estimated we use 1.6 million barrels of oil every year, just making plastic bottled water.
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