plastic awareness challenge

Last Friday was, as we know, Earth Day and I issued a challenge, a plastic awareness challenge. I gave two ways to do this. One was to list all the things plastic that you touched in a single day or to save and list all the plastic you would throw away (not including recycled plastic) in one week.

Here are my lists:

All the things plastic I touched on Earth Day, 4/22/11:

1. reading glasses
2. pill caddy
3. filtered water container
4. computer/keyboard/mouse
5. handle of the coffee maker carafe
6. laminate that covers kitchen cabinet doors, kitchen and bath counters and drawing table
7. floor tiles in kitchen and bath
8. bag inside the cereal box
9. beverage carton
10. refrigerator handle and door coating
11. light switch
12. automatic pencil
13. erasure holder
14. truck (so many plastic things in and on it)
15. phone
16. spiral on my notebook
17. sunglasses
18. grocery bag
19. bulk food container and scoop
20. various product packaging
21. turtle and fish food containers
22. various food packaging
23. kitchen scale
24. pitcher
25. various re-used small plastic containers I use in my work, jars of frit
26. plastic food wrap
27. hose and sprayer nozzle
28. beverage (juice) bottle
29. whiskey bottle

Here's my throw away plastic for one week (7 days - Friday the 22^nd thru Thursday the 28th):

1. plastic coated silk container
2. styrofoam meat tray
3. paper label from meat tray with plastic wrapping stuck to it
4. plastic/paper pad from meat tray
5. two cheese wrappers
6. chicken plastic wrapper
7. 2 chip bags
8. packaging for salmon
9. coffee seal
10. applicator and packaging for cat flea treatment
11. 2 caps and stoppers
12. twist tie

My week of throw away plastic is pretty typical, some weeks more items, some weeks less.

So. Did anybody else make a list?