A global environmentalist with Huron County roots wants people to be more selective when shopping.
Jennifer Pate was the guest speaker at a weekend presentation at the Bayfield Town Hall on Strategies to Reduce Plastic Waste.
She urged everyone in the audience of about 100 people to get involved in the battle to eliminate single-use plastic.
"There are so many different resources out there in terms of what you can do. Start small, start with one piece of single-use plastic whether it's a straw, or the top of your coffee cup, or whatever it is, change that and then move on to the next thing," she said.
Pate said the things we buy today will directly impact the things that are made tomorrow, so we have to take advantage of that power.
"It's one thing for industry to change the way that they're designing products, which is necessary, but the whole other side of is that we can dictate what they're making by what we demand," she said. "So that's another way that we can be powerful as citizens."
Jennifer Pate, environmentalist and clean water advocate (photo by Bob Montgomery)
