About The Plastic-Free Kiwi

I first began to detox plastic from my life in 2010 are first hearing about Pacific gyre plastic garbage patch and reading about pioneer plastic-free activists such as Beth Terry and Taina Uitto. Since then the plastic-free movement has grown and grown including the currently trendy zero waste movement. Here I blog about ways I try to purge plastic from my life, finding alternatives and raising my zero waste, plastic-free baby.

THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC

There are many reasons. One, plastic is ugly and plastic dumps are ugly. But  the one that really hits home for me is the fact that none of it is biodegradable which means every bit of plastic ever made is still in existence somewhere. Because it doesn't break down it ends up in the waterways and forests to the stomachs of fish and birds who end up basically dying of starvation due to the plastic fulling them up but not sustaining them. Images like the one below really tug on the heart strings. Taken at the Midway Island albatross colony located in one of the world's most isolated locations in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and also home to the biggest plastic-trash soup.

Image by Chris Jordan

Helpful documentaries:

• The Plastic Age (features Pharrell Williams)