Machiko Yasuda interviewed Plastic Pollution Coalition cofounder Dianna Cohen and published a great article on the Take Part Blog entitled “From waste to art: using and refusing plastic”

Below we have highlighted a few quotes from the article and embeded a slideshow of Machiko’s Flickr photos. You can read the full article here.

“Recyling plastic is a bandaid,” she says. While recyclable plastic bags or bottles may seem like a panacea, it’s not stopping the production of the material.

“A plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.”

Refusing plastics – whether in the form of baby bottles, yogurt containers, baby pacifiers, or plastic food wrap – will eliminate the need to decide whether to recycle it at all.  Cohen herself has refused to drink anything out of plastics for the past year, and she can taste the difference.