Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Plants from nurseries. The cardboard works just fine for smaller plants. Bigger pots should be recycled
+1000! It kills me how much plastic I generate each spring when I buy my plants. When there are the cardboard kind I choose those instead.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You know what is really great that is plastic? This little plastic carrying loop they put on paper towel and toilet paper packages in Europe. So convenient and saves a bag to already have a handle o the package itself. Why don’t we have that in the states?
Also, garbage bags are sold in a roll. No cardboard packaging. So efficient.
We do. I've been given those at CVS before.
Anonymous wrote:Water bottles. They became ubiquitous around mid 90s. Prior to that people just used the water fountain.
The billions of people in mainland China thankfully carry their own tea thermoses everywhere. But Americans gots to have their Fiji Water bottled and flown in from the Pacific.
Anonymous wrote:Plastic wrap. I hate how many recipes tell you to wrap/cover something in plastic wrap
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:plastic forks spoons knives
use metal and wash
We use them to scrape cat litter out of the box, so that’s a no from me.
Anonymous wrote:Plants from nurseries. The cardboard works just fine for smaller plants. Bigger pots should be recycled
Anonymous wrote:ziplocs, grocery bags, saran wrap. Too much avoidable plastic in grocery stores aslo (meat, vegggies).
I wish someone came up with a sustainable solution for take-out containers. Also toothbrushes.