First, I enjoy IKEA for an outing — even though they inflict so much plastic on the world. Even the chair I’m sitting on. I’m not going to apologize for a faux-Swedish experience.
But last night, at their College Park, Maryland location, I noticed a sign in their cafe that said they no longer give out [...]
The International Telecommunication Union has approved a common cell-phone charger format, using what some of us already have — a mini-USB — as a global standard.
This standard means you don’t need a different charger for a new phone — changing phones frequently is a problem in its own right — so they needn’t be made, [...]
Hubby and I got back from a trip to Paris and Cologne, and boy did I blow through some plastic. I even drank some bottled water — which I’d normally not do — because the available tap options were unclear and I don’t even want to think about plastic table wear.
But there are a couple [...]
