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		<title>Low plastic? Shop on campus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Athens, Georgia last weekend for a University of Georgia alumni event. One fun thing about being in a college town is shopping for items unavailable elsewhere. (Metro D.C. is &#8212; what? &#8212; thirty times the size, but it&#8217;s easier to get beer-making supplies in Athens, for instance.)
One such product line is green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/02/24/low-plastic-shop-on-campus/</link>
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		<title>Making bread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The District of Columbia and surrounding area is digging out from a pair of blizzards the likes of which have not seen around here in living memory.
Bread was one of the first commodities to disappear &#8212; this is a well-known phenomenon, even for modest snows &#8212; and the snowfall prevented trucks from restocking. We, however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/02/15/making-bread/</link>
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		<title>Low plastic office: Hollinger boxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A truly paperless office, even if desirable, is very hard to organize. Paper is just too useful a product and paper printed quickly becomes paper stored. There are many metal filing tools for those who want to avoid plastic, but these are often packed in plastic or are simply too large or unwieldy for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/02/02/low-plastic-office-hollinger-boxes/</link>
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		<title>D.C. bag law, one month on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The District of Columbia law requiring a fee for disposable bags in food and liquor businesses is reducing the demand for thee bags, even if it irritates some locals. 
No official reports yet, but shopkeepers report half the use of disposable bags &#8212; quite an accomplishment &#8212; per this January 23 article in the Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/01/31/dc-bag-law-one-month-on/</link>
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		<title>Replace plastic with clay and water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching NHK World, the Japanese state broadcaster, in English tonight and a news segment noted Takuzo Aida of the University of Tokyo announcing a possible replacement for plastics made mostly of water, clay and organic materials. Potential uses include surgical implants.
New Scientist has details &#8220;Smart mud could be the new plastic&#8220;


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		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/01/20/replace-plastic-with-clay-and-water/</link>
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		<title>Getting rid of phone books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, NPR had a segment (&#8220;The Phone Book&#8217;s Days Appear Numbered&#8221;) about a California bill to make white page directories opt-in, the problems associated with their production and disposal and about the overall decline of the utility of phonebooks. (These are, of course, mostly paper &#8212; a valuable resource in its own right &#8212; but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/01/18/getting-rid-of-phone-books/</link>
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		<title>Low Plastic Office: rubber bands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about reducing plastic use in the office which &#8212; after home &#8212; is the place it makes the most sense for me and for many others.
I want to point out the obvious: rubber bands are really handy. I use them to bundle papers, including files. I use them to cinch cables &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/01/11/low-plastic-office-rubber-bands/</link>
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		<title>Shaving with water only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a touch of heresy floating around the double-edge-blade shaving web: you don&#8217;t really need lather to shave. It&#8217;s relevant here because double-edge blades can be had without plastic.
Heresy because some of the cachet to double-edge shaving is the equipment &#8212; the obvious, but also brushes, mugs, soap, lotions and mirrors &#8212; that makes it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/01/09/shaving-with-water-onl/</link>
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		<title>Some more facts about the D.C. bag law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The District of Columbia&#8217;s shopping bag law begins today, and I&#8217;ve already been out to pick up a few necessities, cloth bags in tow.
Since I&#8217;ve heard some misinformation, I thought I would share some details about the new law.

The financial impact statement for the bill compares Washington, D.C. to Seattle, Washington, which went though a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2010/01/01/some-more-facts-about-the-d-c-bag-law/</link>
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		<title>GreaterGreaterWashington on reuseable bags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surely someone will call the five-cent fee on disposable bags a Bagocolypse, but I think it&#8217;s a great policy for the environment and against waste. And it starts January 1.
Intrepid local affairs and government blogger David Alpert has written today about the policy and where free reusable bags may be had.
More about this topic later. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowplastic.com/2009/12/30/greatergreaterwashington-on-reuseable-bags/</link>
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