Reduce Your Use! ~ This week try limiting your single-use plastics. Plastic is everywhere. Grocery stores shelves are filled with containers made of it (on a normal day) and when you check out, bags are made of it. Restaurants pass out straws and to-go containers made of it. Plastic water bottles are convenient at events (remember those?) and when you’re thirsty on-the-go. Then maybe worst of all, it litters our streets and sidewalks and eventually makes its way to our waterways. Try buying or making your own reusable grocery bags and store them in your trunk, rather than going for the plastic bags at check-out. Refill your water bottle and take it with you on your daily walk, rather than grabbing a disposable one. Use your own utensils at home and request that restaurants don’t include plastic straws and utensils with your takeout meal. The less plastic we use, the less likely it is to make its way where it shouldn’t.