Plastic is the ubiquitous element in our lives today. It isn’t oil that powers people’s home, it is just fuel after all. It is the storage items that have been made out of plastic that power people’s lives. Without plastic we truly would have been lost. Sure you might consider e as spawn of the devil for saying something like that – after all aren’t plastics the reason we are having so many ecological problems today? However, I hope you take a step back and look at this problem from another perspective. It isn’t plastic that is to blame, it is the people who don’t dispose of it correctly. I have been a green living activist all my life, but I love my plastic picnic basket and I think there is a place for all of the plastic and us to co-exist.

The good old mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle is true even today and for some reason many people seem to have forgotten that. Every small basket that I have bought over the last ten or so years has been made out of recycled plastic and to tell you the truth I have seen the quality of items made from recycled plastic go only one way – up!

There is good that has come with all the pressure that people have been putting on what I would like to term Big Plastic as the large corporations that use plastic as packaging material and for other cases have begun reducing their use. One of the largest companies that has taken it upon themselves to do their part in reducing the carbon footprint and the harm that the human species has done tot he environment is Apple. With mercury-free glass and packaging that is less than 25% the size of the original, they truly are an amazing act of CSR.