After attending the Rose Cafe on Wednesday, I became more knowledgable on the subject of plastic and recycling. To the general public, recycling is always considered a good thing. I was guilty of thinking that recycling was tremendously better than landfills. However, most of our plastics don’t get recycled. This may be because it’s simply too hard to or that the item contains many different types of plastics. The conversation was also interesting because I realized how good of an item plastic is because of its economic effects. Plastic is very cheap, easy to produce, and provides great value to its products. It’s very hard to beat plastic. Now, I believe that maybe it’s not about finding an alternative to plastic immediately but as a population we should make small but effective decisions to reduce the use of plastic. For instance, not buying plastic water bottles and using a Brita filter. The combined effect of this small action can have a drastic impact.