Letter: We Have Many Means of Saving Waste

Suzanne Sloan shares practical, waste-free habits from the past and challenges readers to rethink how they reuse, recycle, and reduce plastics.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Since I was born in 1933, you can well imagine me being pre-many things. Plastic food and beverage containers, for instance, those that fill our recycling bins every garbage day. Plastics, in my opinion, are one of the most dangerous and polluting products developed in the last century.

But how could the world get along without them,…