Plastics, oil spills, petro-chemical ingredients in everyday products, and pre-polluted babies. Fitting together pieces of the news every day is devastating. This month I am going to face up to plastics and face them down.

For two weeks this month I am going to focus on plastics: why we need to become far more aware of plastics, how to make some of the small and easy changes, and then how we might approach some of the bigger but quite necessarily changes we need to make to rid ourselves of products that hurt us coming and going.

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