I agree. Sooo much plastic. For example.Americans throw out 500 million straws a day. Staggering. I keep trying to reduce, reuse, recycle as much as I can. When did it become such a throwaway culture?
I bring some stainless coffee cups in my car(extra for friends, family), some metal silverware, bring my own water in reusable bottles, ask for ceramic mugs if going to a cafe, reusable canvas or cloth shopping bags. Just think of the impact if we could get people to just do this?

where do you get it?

It's sickening to me too Twill. I am obsessive about recycling. I get enraged when I still run across people who don't recycle. Do they assume we have another planet standing by??
Years ago, I did a presentation about plastic...it's short and very informative. Anyone interested can check it out here:

It will take some time to fully realise the problem plastis is causing, will it be too late?
[weforum.org]plastic-is-floating-in-our-oceans/

That is a good idea. I remember as a kid we used wax paper, and I saw nothing bad about that product. The everything became plastic.