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Everywhere we go, stores and shops hand us single-use plastic items for everything from bags to spoons. It’s completely normal to use these items for 20 minutes or less before we throw them away. Then these items end up in our landfills and waterways, where they endanger animals and contaminate our environment with microplastics as they degrade over hundreds of years.

It’s time to opt out of unnecessary single-use plastics. Take the No Plastic Please pledge and change your own plastic legacy.

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Animals don’t deserve to have

Animals don’t deserve to have their homes negatively affected because of the habits of humans. I want to live in a clean community where humans and animals alike can flourish in a healthy and natural way.

Natalie A.

South Side

I say “No Plastic Please” because:

I want to do what I can to reduce the negative impact plastic is having on our world today and on the future world for our children.

Sabrina

Highland Park

There’s no good reason NOT

There’s no good reason NOT to reduce your plastic waste! Plastic won’t break down in your lifetime, so why leave more trash behind you as a legacy? Thinking outside the box and remembering to carry your bamboo utensils or simply bring a cup to your local coffee shop is good for your brain, too!

Rachael Wonderlin

Pittsburgh

I don’t like having more

I don’t like having more trash then items / food. My reuseable items are stronger, better looking, and more functional then single use plastic.

Lief

Colorado

Prepare for Success

Create your own SUP-Free Kit

Good intentions to refuse single-use plastic won’t help you when you’re faced with an ice cream sundae you can’t eat with your fingers or leftovers you need to transport home. The best thing you can do to be successful in your pledge is to create your own “SUP-free” kit. The idea of this kit is to empower you to say no to single-use plastics in most situations by providing your own alternatives at easy reach.

Shown here (clockwise from center top): collapsible silicone take-out container, reusable nylon produce bag (inside take-out container), travel cutlery set (knife, fork, spoon, straw, chopsticks), fold-up tote, reusable water bottle

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Where are you a stakeholder or decision-maker?

Where are single-use plastics used at your office, your school, your church, or other group?
Are there places where single-use plastics are the default choice but where different decisions might be made if the true cost of single-use plastics were part of the decision process?

Start a conversation and change your whole community.

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