Section 306 Brett Arnold

Today is Tuesday, November 30th..my day to attepmt a life without plastic.

I woke up to my daily alarm clock and leaned over to turn it off, realizing this was the day I said I would attempt to live with outplastic, I contimplated not shutting it off...but do to my roomates need for sleep I did indeed shut it off. So my first waking moments of my day I had already failed.

I went to get myself prepared for the day in the bathroom and realized that my daily hygene depends on my use of plastic. It was then that I realized that I was going to use plastic for everything I needed today, but if it was something that I did not need I would refrain from using the plastic substance.

So in the bathroom I brushed my teeth with my plastic toothbrush and toothpaste that was in a plastic tube. I went to grab my contacts, which are plastic, that were in a plastic container and squirted contact solution onto them that was in a plastic container. Next I went to get into the shower by pulling aside the plastic shower curtain. Looking in the shower I saw my soap and shampoo were both in plastic containers and the showerhead was also plastic.

I went to the kitchen to make myself breakfast. I opened the refrigerator door and for once took the realization of how much plastic is in a refrigertor. I poured myself a glass of milk from the plastic milk carton however into a glass cup. I made my self eggs because they are in a cardboardish box and I was able to use a pan and a metal spatula. However the nobs on the oven were plastic...failure.

Then I got myself dressed and off to class. I went downstairs and too my moped. This was one point of my plastic free day that I had not seen coming. The frame of my moped was almost entirely made of plastic. So I decided to walk. On my way to class, I was bathing in my own triumphs of not using my plastic moped when I looked down and saw my shoes that I was walking on were made of plastic...funny how that happens.

I got to class and pulled out my notebook to start taking notes. I had no wooden pencils so I had to use my mechanical ones that were made of plastic. Not to mention the notebook I pulled was made entirely from plastic...it was actually a cheap one so the rungs were made of plastic too...go figure.

It was time for lunch and I entered Subway. Not to my suprise...almost everything in the resturant was made of plastic. Every container that every food item was in was made of plastic...I decided that I was too hungry to pass up a sweet union chicken teryaki chicken sandwhich so I went on with my meal.

I got home and wanted to watch tv for a while but could not because the tv was made from plastic. I decided this would be a great excuse to go to the library where a wooden desk with a wooden chair awaited me.

It was later in the night now and I had to walk back from College library because my moped was still parked.

I got home and was hungry. I was looking around for a way not to use plastic, or to minimize my use of it because I was getting hungry. I decided despite the plastic wrapping and the plastic handle on the pizza oven, I decided making a frozed pizza would suffice. I did have to enter the plastic filled refrigerator again.

After I went back to the bathroom where I had the same experiences with plastic as I did that morning. I had to set an alarm for the morning so I did so on my plastic alarm clock.

Thus ending my plastic "free" day.