In my household, we use plastic water bottles and usually throw them away after. I think the best way to reuse them is to refill them with filtered tap water and use them when going out. Another thing that we use is plastic bags. We have reusable grocery bags and paper bags, but sometimes I forget to bring them and I get a plastic bag and then just throw it away. When I need to use a plastic bag, I think the best way to reuse them is to keep them and then reuse them for groceries or some other type of bag.

Yes, I agree with reusing plastic bags and my family does this a lot, but I do not believe we should reuse plastic water bottles. This is because when you constantly reuse plastic water bottles, the chemicals used to make the bottle will start leeching out and contaminating the water inside the bottle. This could greatly affect your health. So instead of reusing plastic water bottles, it would be financially cheaper, ecologically safer, and safer for your health if you would buy a metal water bottle that could be reused.
Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/reusing-plast … ds-1204028

This has been a problem forever. Reusing is usually always the answer but we can also not use anything plastic at all. buying a metal water bottle. Not only does it save you money but it also eliminates the use of plastic bottles. You can do the same with plastic bags as well.

i agree with people recycling and using reusable grocery bags,reusable water bottles, and metal straws i think it is a good idea to reduce trash in the ocean as well.

In my family we used to used to use lots of plastic bottles. But then the save the turtles campaign came out, we figured we needed to do our part to help save the environment. We stopped buying plastic water bottles all together and each person in my family has there own metal water bottle. One of the things I do is make sure I have that reusable bottle on me at all times. By using and keeping a reusable bottle on me I am able to reduce my plastic waste. If I were to use a reusable bottle consistently, I would save 1,460 plastic bottles a year, since the average person drinks four plastic bottles a day. In terms of plastic bags, my family does pretty good on refraining plastic bag use and we tend to more than likely bring a reusable bag into stores. But there is always that off occasion when we leave our reusable bag in the car and end up using a plastic or paper bag. When this happens we store them in the closet and keep hold of them so if we ever need one we can reuse it. However I disagree with reusing the plastic water bottles because plastic water bottles are meant for a one time use so when you repeatedly use  it, the plastic begins to wear down releasing toxic chemicals in your water.

I completely agree that the best way to reduce plastic waste is to reuse them. In my home, every time we go to the store we bring our own bags that can be purchased at the store. If we have to, we will buy the smaller plastic bags but we reuse them just like the purchasable bags. According to Anthropocene Magazine, if people start to reuse the plastic bags that they purchase we can reduce the number of carbon emissions by 4.9 gigatons by 2050. In addition to reducing the carbon emission, it could even create more jobs for the economy. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reports that if Wisconsin business and office owners recycled their plastic the industry would be worth more than 41 million dollars.

Here are the websites that I used: https://anthropocenemagazine.org/2019/0 … -not-easy/
https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/recycling/bags.html

My family reuses and recycles many things, my mom doesn't like buying items with plastic unless she can reuse them for something else. She also uses reusable bags and we all have water bottles, obviously, every family is different. I would suggest being mindful of the items you decide to buy but also to put things in the right bin. Obviously plastic is used in various items but anything that you can do to minimize the amount of plastic you use would improve your carbon footprint dramatically. These changes you make will impact the amount of garbage that goes into the oxygen as well as gas emissions when the plastic is burned, ex.

I agree that reusing water bottles and plastic bags are very good for the environment. Plastic bags and plastic water bottles are some of the most manufactured items in today's world, which makes them harmful. My family also tries to reduce waste by reusing grocery bags and water bottles. Instead of reusing a plastic water bottle, I would suggest getting a metal one that will last forever.

I totally agree with reusing the waterbottles. My family likes to reuse water bottles and paper/plastic bags. Reusing is the best thing for the environment. I love to use reusable water bottles cause you can get really good ones that aren't that expensive and look really cute. Same with bags. My mom has reusable grocery bags that she likes to use. Those are really durable as we have been using the same ones for a long time. I especially think that it is a good time to start reusing because the U.S gets a lot of plastics and metals from outside the country and who knows what will happen if the virus continues.

I agree I think it is important to reduce and reuse plastic in order to help the environment. In my family, we bring reusable bags to the grocery store and try to buy food without plastic wrap. For example, we buy vegetables without containers or plastic wrap and we do not buy pre-cut vegetables (these come in plastic containers usually). We use plastic water bottles, but only for emergencies. In my family, we obtain lots and lots of water bottles that we use on the daily. The plastic water bottles that we do use are always sanitized and then used again. These things my family does definitely help reduce plastic waste, but we can always reduce more plastic waste.

I also agree that it is really important to reuse and reduce. I think that reusing and reducing it a major factor in helping our environment. Just like you, my household also reuses bags. Whenever we go to the grocery store we almost always bring our own reusable bags. If we don't we try to get a paper bag. We then use the paper bag as a thing to put our recyclable items in. Whenever we buy produce we use those small bags to put fruits and vegetables in. We then reuse them to pick our dog's poop. That way we also never have to buy dog poop bags. We also compost all the fruits and vegetables. We then use that compost to grow more fruits and vegetables. Another thing we do is reuse water bottles. In our family, we drink a lot of sparkling water. So we use a SodaStream. According to the website beverage daily using a Soda stream can save over 550 plastic bottles. We drink a lot of it so we probably save even more. If everyone does small things like this, it can lead to a big positive change in our environment. Here is the link to the website https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2 … ttle-waste.

I agree I think that it is important to eliminate the amount of plastic products and waste we use in our household and also in our daily lives. In my family, we reuse plastic bags after we use them because it isn't healthy for our environment if we keep throwing away things that could make this situation worse. But we try to reduce the amount of plastic we use every day.