Softcup and I are friends again. A while back I introduced you to the reusable Softcup. Let me be clear-we were never not friends, but I took a break. What is Softcup? Bye bye tampons and pads Never heard of a menstrual cup? Softcup is a flexible cup, worn internally around your cervix (do you know where your cervix…
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Why is There Plastic Wrap on That?
Plastic wrap is my nemesis. Have you ever asked yourself ‘why is there plastic wrap on that?’ I have never touted myself as perfect when it comes to green living, but there are some things that seem so simple, so intuitive that it’s beyond me why they happen. Take for example this organic cucumber that I…
Product Review: LunchBots Stainless Steel Lunch Containers
Lunch boxes are a hot topic of conversation these days. It’s hard not to talk about them when children’s lunches create more than 3.5 billion pounds of garbage each year, which amounts to a crazy 18,760 pounds of trash annually from an average sized elementary school. That’s a lot of waste. The Sierra Club estimates…
Del Monte’s Gone Bananas
This one’s hard to grasp. Del Monte has decided (probably after lots of focus groups??) to sell individually wrapped bananas. To clarify: they are going to add a layer of plastic wrap to a fruit that comes with its own natural, biodegradable packaging. According to Del Monte, the clear pouches are said to contain “controlled…
