Plastic Ban Day 8

I was traveling for 3 days and let me just say that road trips are NOT conducive to reducing plastic.  The very first thing that happened was filling up the car with gas and picking up a glass bottle of Mocha Frappuchino to drink on the road.  While it is a glass bottle with a metal top it was COVERED in plastic wrap that had to come off.  Then I had a straw.

2 pieces of plastic for one drink.

First stop of the trip was at Buc-ees which is my favorite place to stop on any road trip!  Love the Buc-ees! They have reasonably priced gas, they have the cleanest restrooms with 72 stalls and the store goes on forever!  Miles and miles of the best tasting stuff and also the cutest stuff with Buc-ee beaver on it.  It is just too much fun to go to Buc-ees.

And my favorite thing there is the Beaver Nuggets.  It's a junk food item they make that tastes like a cross between Cap'n Crunch, Corn Pops and Poppycock.  You just know this stuff is waaaaay bad for you, and yet?  you can't stop eating it!

Beaver Nuggets?  They come in a damn plastic bag.  Plus I got a fountain drink of iced tea with a splash of lemonade.  This was in a tall styrofoam cup with a plastic top and a straw.  What's my plastic total for the day?  4 plastics and 1 styrofoam.  And I have only been gone from the house a little over an hour!

That was it for that day. But the return trip home was much the same, a couple of road trip cups with plastic tops and straws.

I was saving all my plastic stuff in a container to photograph and show you at the end of the month, but I did not save the stuff from the beginning of the trip and keep it in the car for 3 days to bring home and photograph.  So my pile will look smaller than it actually is.

Today I will hit the grocery store and have to make the hard decisions on some items.  I am 99% sure that I will be bringing home the Nido brand powdered milk that has zero plastic, but I don't know about the laundry soap.  I will have to check out all the packaging when I get there.

Current total: 6 plastics and 2 styrofoams.