Rise Above Plastics already wrote about an SD flash memory card purchase at Costco, but that’s not what I was thinking about yesterday when I walked to Radio Shack to buy a 8gig SD card on sale. But it turns out that SanDisk product also was in less plastic packaging, though without the handy [...]
Well, Hubby and I enjoyed our third vegetarian Thanksgiving feast; I blogged about the cooking at my main blog here, here, here and here, as much for notes for next year as anything. (We’re not vegetarians, but it’s hard to be thankful with a dead turkey in the fridge.) Alas, I waited too long to [...]
If you’re gay and approaching 40, you’re going to have a past with the synthpop group Erasure. It’s the law.
That aside, the video for their their 1989 single “Drama!” matches cautionary tale about “one psychological drama after another” with the evident dangers of plastic waste. Enjoy the synth to the nth.
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Setting a benchmark, I suppose. Over the weekend, Hubby and I went shopping in the ‘burbs, including a Turkish grocery where I got a 500g box of loose Ceylon tea — which I like very much — at a good price.
Inside the box, the tea was packaged in a thick, moisture resistant paper, so I [...]
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Plastic water bottles are a terrible source of plastic waste, so drinking tap water — perhaps filtered — makes sense. Brita has been taking advantage of this new sensitivity with a compelling a: buy our filters and be green.
Beth Terry — she of Fake Plastic Fish — led a campaign to get Brita to take [...]
I live near one of that new generation of frou-frou frozen yogurt places, Tangysweet. Dramatic interior. Tasty, tart sweet treat. They’re served in an Econtainer, a paper cup which “contains NatureWorks(c) PLA”. (one vendor) So paper with the so-called corn plastic. Theoretically compostable, and certainly more compostable than a spoon or pen (which you can [...]
Was at Greater Goods tonight to get a 1.2kg bag of Charlie’s Soap Powder — for laundry, packed in paper; more about that later — when I saw the German-made Fuchs Ekotec toothbrush (online retailer), which claims to be “economical, ecologically correct”. Which is good, since my toothbrush is looking ragged.
Is the claim vaild? [...]
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Today I took my own paper bags to Yes! Organic Market — the one in Adams Morgan, on Columbia Road — to see if I could use them in place of the thin plastic bags supplied.
Of course I could. So I got roasted peanuts and quick-cook oats, and they were cheaper than packaged alternatives. Now, [...]
