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Your Plastic Audit
Last Sunday, I conducted a personal plastic audit. The results were sobering:
Invisible Plastic (Never Realized)
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Tea bag: 0.01g polypropylene each (for heat sealing)
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Chewing gum: 0.3g synthetic rubber each (base ingredient)
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Wet wipe: 0.5g PET fiber each (for durability)
Essential Plastic (Hard to Replace)
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Insulin pen cartridge: 1.2g medical-grade PET (father’s daily essential)
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Safety helmet: 480g ABS engineering plastic (construction site mandate)
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Condom: 0.02g latex (but packaging contains 0.5g composite film)
Avoidable Plastic (Can Change Today)
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Bottled water: 1 bottle/day × 365 days = 3,650g PET
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Takeout packaging: 3 times/week × 52 weeks = 7,800g PP+PS
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Fast fashion: 5 items/year × avg. 300g polyester = 1,500g
The audit’s final line reads: “If I keep only essential plastic, my annual plastic footprint drops from 18.6kg to 2.1kg—an 89% reduction. This means I could prevent 18,600 plastic bags or 620 plastic bottles from entering the environment each year.”
