Category: Plastic Tally 2009-04-15

Year 2, Week 43 Results: .05 oz of plastic waste… Again!

Just so you know, my scale will only weigh in increments of .1 oz. For the past two weeks, it has measured my plastic waste at 0.00, so I am guessing at .05 because I know that reality is somewhere between 0.00 and .1.
The full tally for last week:

Plastic baggies of nuts and bolts [...]

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Year 2, Week 42 Results: .05 oz of plastic waste

It was a pretty great week, plastickly speaking. But for some plastic envelope windows, I’d have had almost none. And speaking of envelope windows, various readers have suggested that they are made from glassine and not really plastic. The full answer that while some envelope windows are indeed made from glassine (a [...]

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Year 2, Week 41 Results: 14.7 oz of plastic waste

As you can see, I never found a taker for those 16 American Idol DVDs. Did anyone actually think I would? Here’s the full tally for last week:
Plastic purchased before the plastic project began:

16 2007 American Idol DVDs. What was I thinking when I burned the full season of American Idol onto [...]

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Your opinion please! Year 2, Week 40 Results: 3.1 oz of plastic waste.

I need your opinion about whether or not to include a particular item in my tally. But first, here is all the rest of the plastic for this week.
Plastic purchased before the plastic project began:

Plastic bottle of Dr. Weil’s Balanced Cal/Mag tablets and plastic cap. As bad as I’ve been about flossing, [...]

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