PLASTIC PLANET

by Mary Schook
Over the last several years I have been listening to customers and friends alike talk about how they can't get pregnant. I originally wondered if it might be stress, poor diet, their partner, etc. I also knew that we had a plastic problem especially since we made ourselves dependent on bottled water. I never did connect the idea that plastic might be leaching chemicals (Bisphenol A) into our water causing endocrine issues or infertility.

THEN I found out about a REALLY big problem-The GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH. You initially think that it's just a garbage problem choking and killing the fish. Dig a little deeper and you find out that plastic in the sun and heat leaches unknown chemicals that are polluting our waters killing the fish and then in turn slowly killing us! You can read more about the Pacific Garbage Patch HERE.In the beauty world if you kill the fish, you kill your skin. We need fish to give us essential fats that our bodies need for our skin, brain and heart. It's one big reason the Asians look so good!

It appears plastic, which was invented to make our lives better and more efficient might be one of the first things to make life much worse in the end. This isn't a science fiction problem that is effecting some obscure country somewhere in the world. It's a grave issue for us all that's only about to get worse.

Since I'm not one to bring up a problem without finding a solution I would like to introduce you to something that might help us to reverse the great damage we have caused (and continue to cause to the planet and ourselves). It is a machine that takes any kind of plastic and converts it back to gasoline, diesel or kerosine. It's a revolutionary breakthrough that I have been trying to get companies such as Chipotle and Virgin Brands to invest in. It helps us reduce foreign energy dependency. It helps to safely eliminate a burdening plastic waste problem. It might even raise our GNP.

In New York City alone you can only recycle plastic bottles and jugs. Recycled plastic doesn't fix or reduce the problem, it only delays it. I just found out from National Geographic 'on average, a plastic bag is used for 12 minutes before it's tossed'!



I'm not here to preach about drinking from plastic or lecture on our plastic consumption. You should watch the compelling movie above (available on netflix) and decide that for yourself. I am here to make you aware that there is an international group M.S. Apothecary is leading, P.O.P. (Planet of Plastic), which intends to approach Mayor Bloomberg by the end of the year about reducing New York's Plastic waste in alignment with his 2030 green plan (hopefully with this machine).

So the moral of the story here is be aware of what you consume. Don't wait for your health to go bad to do something about it. Perhaps make one small change for yourself that will in turn into a big change for yourself and others around you. If lemon juice cleanses can be wildly trendy can't reducing 1 personal plastic bottle a day?

P.S. If you didn't get by now plastic is made with oil......just remember most of your face creams out there are too!