Archive for the ‘packaging’ Category

Try to Beat this Domino’s Pizza!

Think of all of that wasted, greasy cardboard next time you order a pizza by phone. Now, Compare that idea with what the Indians have been using for take out in Mumbai, India over the last century – a tiffin or 2 or 3 tier lunch container. They even have tiffin carriers [...]

How much trash do you produce?

According to the “Clean Air Council”, the average American throws out 4.39 lbs of trash a day! I know that I see much more than that just at the “End of the Year Soccer Parties” that I attend with my daugthers. A good way to start would be to bring along reusable containers, [...]

This school year, what can you do to impact the environment?

First, you can quit buying those bulky, over-packaged, prefab lunches with names like: Lunch Makers and Lunchables. Whenever I’m in the supermarket with my youngest, she’s always attracted to them. Must be the packaging that catches her eye!
A better alternative for you, the environment and your kids would be to use wrap-n-mats [...]

More prints to wrap your sandwich

Just before school starts, we now carry four new child friendly prints of wrap-n-mats. We have creatures (cuddly playful pals, desert ponies and polar friends), as well as machines (colorful helicopters and planes). These in addition to the prints we always carry that include blue, green, gingham and eco designs.
These re-usable sandwich [...]

BPA: All talk no action?

o, after much consumer and media attention, BPA continues to be around and not even the Canadian government has put it on the toxic list. It’s been about two years…
Complete article:
Bisphenol A continues off the toxic list

Visit the bulk food bins.

Most of my dishes center around a grain (basmati rice, quinoa or couscous), that I buy in bulk. Then, I make a recipe around it. Buying in bulk is nothing new to me. Besides, there is much less packaging to throw away. According to ShifYourHabit.com, If everyone in the U.S. bought [...]

What do Wal-Mart, Whole Foods and Target have in Common?

That’s true. They’re all retail stores.
In addition to that, They announced on Wednesday that they are “phasing out baby products that contain BPA“.
Also, on that day, the California Assembly was going to vote to ban BPA. It fell short of the needed votes.
The legislature [...]

Back to School Ideas

Just in time for the back-to-school season, www.HealthyKitchenware.com has the solution to your kids’ brown bagging needs with their eco-friendly, practical, reusable, dishwasher safe, stainless steel lunchbox containers that make it easy to pack a nutritious, waste-free meal. (That’s unless you want to send them to the school cafeteria for their daily dose of mystery [...]

Celebrate: 66% Less Plastic Bags in China

A year old ban on plastic bags in China has resulted in a 66% reduction in usage!
According to Paul Hodges Wal-Mart China is using 80% less plastic bags. Here is he the complete article.
Maybe we could do something similar here. The city of San Francisco is already doing something similar.

Plastic and oil dependency

It is not only gasoline for your car that makes us highly dependent on foreign oil, it’s all those plastic bags!
Here is some information from the Miami Herald:
1. Plastic bags are a petroleum product and a waste of a non-renewable resource. Americans use 100 billion bags a year, requiring 12 million barrels of oil.
2. They [...]