Do you really need all of those napkins, straws, forks, or packets of ketchup? Probably not. At least not that many. While convenient and hygienic, these small things add up to a lot of waste. The next time you stop in for a quick bite, cut back on the take-away of your take-out.
Reduce what you grab. Instead of taking handfuls, take just a few. One
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The drink tray is an obvious necessity if you've ever picked up more than your cupholders can handle at a drive-thru. The good news is drink trays, and other molded pulp products, are something you can feel good about.
Molded pulp products extend way beyond the drink trays you'll find at restaurants, cafes and sporting events and are used to ship everything from eggs to consumer electronics and are slowly replacing
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Pile of Plastic Silverware
Americans alone use and dispose of enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times. Lets break this down, mathematically first (then we can physically break down the paper and plastics). If the circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles (a bit longer than measured at the poles), and there are 365 days in the year,
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Whether you're wrapping up a sandwich, covering leftovers or using it on the grill, aluminum foil can be reused over and over again. And when you're finished, it can be recycled along side those soda cans.
As a household item, aluminum foil has a multitude of uses, especially in the kitchen. When storing or cooking food, foil keeps the good stuff in and keeps out light, unwanted moisture and bacteria. Just make sure
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Editor's note: This week, Chris Baskind from Lighter Footstep takes a look at overpackaged goods — and what you can do about them. This post was originally published on May 15, 2007.
Maybe this has happened to you. A desk pen set which comes in shoebox-sized packaging. One aspirin, shrink-wrapped on a six-by-six inch card. A small electronic part that arrives wrapped in more plastic than the device itself.
What a
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If you're one of the few people in the world that still purchases music on a CD (and granted, that's the majority of you), then you'll be happy to know that one music label is planning on greening the packaging containing your tunes.
Warner Music announced earlier this month that all of its CD and DVDs sold in the U.S. will use environmentally friendly paper packaging by
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Can the Pariah be Rehabbed?Few companies raise the ire of the SRI crowd — or any other crowd, for that matter — as much as Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT). Most readers of Green Options do not need for me to recap all of the allegations of exploitative wages, sweatshop abuse, sprawl-mongering, Main Street destruction, and overall corporate rapaciousness. Yet, in the last year, the company has unveiled the following
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Huh? Jeff really must be working too hard… right? Well, I probably am, but the question is legitimate, according to Southern forest sustainability organization the Dogwood Alliance. While many of us greenies are focused on the environmental impact of roses, chocolate and even adult products on Valentine’s Day, Dogwood raised questions about the amount of packaging used for health and beauty products. According to their blog,
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Even today, I still get great joy at finding bubble wrap in some product box I've just opened and taking a minute or two to pop away. Twisting the bubble wrap even gives you that nice machine-gun effect. Anyways, the only problem with bubble wrap (and plastic in general) is its lack of 'return me to the earth' goodness.
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