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Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left.... |
Posts Tagged ‘bring your own’
Carrying Our Own Containers: Powerful Action or Pointless Inconvenience?
“Do you ever get embarrassed?” A journalist, following my plastic-free life, put that question to me as I handed the butcher my stainless steel pot. I was buying ground meat for my homemade cat food. In my own container. Waste-free. “No,” I answered flippantly. “I haven’t been embarrassed about anything since [...]
Read the entire post.Life Without Plastic’s New Insulated Lunch Bag
Update: The first 5 buyers of an insulated lunch bag from Life Without Plastic will receive 10% off. Enter the code FPFBAG into the coupon code field during checkout.
Yesterday, I hinted at how I carried home my ice cream from Tara’s in an insulated nearly plastic-free bag. Now, perhaps you have already figured out a [...]
Plastic-Free Intermission
After seeing two Broadway musicals this past week (Wicked, for the second time, and Rent, for the fifth) I just have one quick and easy tip to share today. Skip the plastic wine cups during theater intermissions. Bring your own reusable beverage container.
I came prepared with two of the stainless steel wine “glasses” [...]
Read the entire post.Outside Lands Rocks with Less Plastic
Don’t get me wrong. There was still a ton of plastic waste to be recycled from the Outside Lands Music Festival that took place this weekend in Golden Gate Park.
But less than last year. Because instead of providing only bottled water, the festival organizers listened to the feedback from last year’s [...]
Music Festival Dilemma. GreenBoatStuff.com to the Rescue!
Yesterday, I interviewed an activist who promotes shifting our spending to truly green companies. Today, I’m going to tell you about one such company. There’s boat stuff coming too. Green boat stuff. But first, a little story…
Remember last year when I blogged about my difficulties filling up my Klean Kanteen at San [...]
Less Impact Cats eat homemade food
This is the amount of waste we have been generating each week to feed our cats since they came to live with us in December of last year. 21 BPA-lined cans to be recycled, as well as a cardboard case covered in plastic wrap. The cans never made it to my tally. [...]
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Read my post about plastic-free recycled ReBinder school & office supplies here.
Read my post about GreenBoatStuff.com here! Their stuff is not just for boats!
