McSisters Tackle Plastic

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If you have any babies or women in your life, this blog is for you.

McSisters

 It’s still Plastic Free July! Have you chosen at least one step in the last week to reduce your use of single-use plastic?  If so, congratulations and thank you for making a difference. 

Plastic Free July is here and what better place to start  changing plastic habits than with our precious young people. As babies, we McSisters were fed with glass baby bottles and were wrapped in cloth diapers. As we grew up, most of our meals were made fresh at home. We drank out of glasses, and ate our meals on real plates.  Fast food dining and take out were not the norm for us. The surge of using single-use plastic was just beginning and grocery stores only used paper bags. We didn’t consume a credit card worth of plastic each week.

 It’s not the same for the teens and children of today. Plastic consumption starts when they are born or even earlier.  Babies are often fed from plastic baby bottles, plastic sippy cups, single-use plastic containers of baby food, juice, fruit, and more.  For those mothers who nurse, breast milk has been found to contain some of the chemicals used to make plastic. Containers for expressed milk are made of plastic. Children and teens drink out of plastic water and energy drink bottles, plastic lined coffee cups, plastic straws, and fast food packaged in plastic.  

In the modern world, from birth, we are inundated with single-use plastic.   Kids of today do consume a credit card worth of plastic each week.  A credit card worth of plastic to a 175-pound adult is much different than one credit card to an 8 pound to 60 pound child. Scientists are gaining greater knowledge each day on the impact of all that plastic on the health of growing children. 

 We McSisters share a deep concern for future generations who are being exposed to so much more plastic than we were in our childhood. Instead of dwelling in the concern, we are choosing to focus on what WE can do.  We get excited every time we discover another way to eliminate single-use plastic in our lives. We love sharing them with our subscribers.

 Today we are excited to share with you ‘The Healthy Baby Guide’.  This article explains the impact toxic chemicals in plastics have on children’s and women’s health. Most importantly, it provides great solutions and alternatives to keep your baby safe.

What can you do?