Good plastic, bad plastic- which is which?

Some plastics are just plain bad for your health. Fortunately there are some pretty good guidelines now available on how to tell what is OK and what you should avoid.
Plastics can be bad for several reasons:

1. Use up precious petroleum resources to make them.
2. They contain dangerous chemicals that might leach out into your food or drink.
3. They clog up landfills and refuse to break down for years.
4. They get discarded into the environment (including te ocean), refuse to break down for years; or when they break down, they release nasty chemicals that go into our water etc etc.

Thanks to many concerned individuals, groups, and now governments and eco-friendly companies, there are many alternatives becoming available. Alternative packaging and biodegradable shopping bags are now very common.
But how do you know what to buy and what to avoid?
Here are some good web sites that will quickly get you on the right track!

• Plastic Bottle Numbers: What do they Mean?
• What Do The Plastic Recycling Numbers Mean?
• Did you know?