Editor's Note: A new documentary, The Story of Plastic, details how single use plastic has become such a dire issue and explains how we can solve it on a large scale. We start with one woman's small efforts.
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We are live in the city, I’m usually on the go, and I eat out a lot. I fear I am the embodiment of a walking-talking, single-use plastic machine. When I learned about the effort to completely remove plastic from nature by 2030, I was intrigued. That’s a global goal, it’s not much time, and it’s so huge it seems daunting. There are 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste in the world. Where to begin on a task like that? One thing is certain, it’s going to take all of us. I decide to challenge myself: I will go one week without single-use plastic.
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