Reusable bags are taking over our kitchen and that’s a good thing. I’m talking about reusable snack and sandwich bags for packing our school lunch and they’re everywhere, filling drawers and cabinets waiting to be used. Did you know that children’s lunches create more than 3.5 billion pounds of garbage each year, which amounts to a crazy 18,760…
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Give the Gift of a Plastic-Free World By Using Reusable Bags
Reusable bags are where it’s at. Are you in? Have you committed to using reusable bags whenever you can? Making an effort to use reusable bags is a simple change we can all make which will have a big impact on our environment. These days it’s pretty easy to accumulate a substantial stash of reusable…
Tips to Avoid Plastic from Beth Terry Author of Plastic Free
Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Beth Terry at BlogHer in San Diego. We had lunch together with a group of green bloggers and I remember spending a lot of time discussing the disposable plastic plates that were being used for all of the meals at BlogHer11. Beth and Amber took the discussion to the…
Summer, Grilled Watermelon and Living Plastic Free
The clock is ticking. The big yellow bus is going to pull up at any moment. Summer vacation is ALMOST here. Well, not quite. There’s a whopping 2 hours of school on Monday. Talk about delaying the start of summer! My Plan for the Summer Honestly, I have no plan. My hope this summer is…
Product Review: Teething Bonbon from Dress Me Up Organic
When my three boys were babies they wanted to chew on everything. It seemed as though all of their teeth came in at once. I struggled to find a teether that was safe. Most of the teethers on the market were made from soft plastic or PVC and I knew they could have phthalates. Phthalates…
To Use or Not to Use? Reusables for Bulk Food and Produce
One of my favorite spots at our local Whole Foods Market is the bulk food isle. I love filling endless amounts of containers (at a bargain price of $9.99/lb) with all sorts of grains and snacks, while simultaneously hoping that a previous customer didn’t sneeze in the bin. Yesterday I was in the bulk food…
