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The Inertia

“It’s not me, it’s you,” says Sandra from across the table at an unspecified coffee shop.

This isn’t a personal story about a bad breakup. It’s about a new campaign created by the United Nations to spur us to reevaluate our “relationship” with single-use plastics.

As frequent players in the ocean, we know what it’s like to paddle through the ocean into a discarded plastic bag, e.g.:

We have also written tirelessly about the effects of plastic. (Read more here, here, here, and here.)

Now Sandra is doing her part to minimize the amount of single-use plastics she uses by ending her toxic, suffocating relationship with them. So is John John for that matter. Like any bad relationship, though, it takes the person in the relationship to recognize its toxicity. So if you, like Sandra, are suddenly realizing it’s time to break up with plastic, two things: 1) Do it, 2) Send us a video of plastic crying across the table – not to add insult to injury but we heard it’s hilarious.

 
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