The average person goes through a large number of plastic waterbottles every year.

Most people do not even recycle them. This really takes up a lot of room in our landfills.

If plastic grocery bags take 100 - 500 years to completely decompose in our landfills, think how long it takes for plastic waterbottles take!

First of all,

Instead of throwing your waterbottles away because there is no recycling bin around to throw them in, or because it is just easier to throw them in the garbage can because it is faster, just recycle them. We all should want to keep our earth in the best condition that we can. Not ruin it by throwing away things that can be recycled.

This doesn't just go for waterbottles either, shopping bags, packiging and everything gets thrown away and we are going to run out of room to put it all.

There is an alternate way to change this too. REUSE! Use reuseable waterbottles, shopping bags, hand-me-down clothes. Buy things that are not over packaged.

That brings up another subject.

In school we were talking about how, so many products are over packaged these days. For example, those little tuna snackers that you buy. . . the tuna is in a second package than everything else, the crackers are in a seperate little baggy, plus everything is inside all of this plastic packaging. Don't you think that this is a little much. . . it all gets thrown away anywayse. . . it is kind of dumb when you really think about it. . .

I am going to post a challenge for everyone that reads my blog. . .

Next time you go to the store try to buy things that are not overpackaged.

This post is getting quite long. . . Please comment!