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stormkeeper_lovedoris) wrote2013-10-30 03:00 pm
stormkeeper_lovedoris) wrote2013-10-30 03:00 pm
Non-drag queen post!
Back in January, before I got obsessed with drag queens, I made some resolutions. I read "My Plastic Free Life" and reading about how bad plastic is scared me. So I made some resolutions to reduce my usage of plastic. Let's see how I did.
Oh, first I should add that there are some things I already do: I never use bottled water and I bring my own bags to the grocery store (and to other stores like Walgreens).
DONE!
1. Find a plastic-free alternative to my hair conditioner (either by Lush or make own)
2. Request “no straw” in restaurants (Most of the time I do this!)
3. Go to the winter farmer’s market
4. Contact Goodge Street Press to get plastic-free thank you cards
5. Return the Tom’s of Maine toothpaste tubes since they recycle them and/or use Lush’s plastic-free “Toothy tabs”
6. At the grocery, buy fewer items that are wrapped in plastic (i.e. replace plastic bags of lettuce with naked ones).
7. Bring own containers to the bulk bin (the store will weigh it first, so they can subtract the weight when they ring it up)
8. Look for other foods that come in plastic and that I can make myself (i.e. – mustard?) We have stopped buying soy milk because of its packaging, and we get all our orange juice from a place that lets us fill up a glass bottle.
9. Find an alternative to hair gel. Try: http://www.thenameisproduct.com/
10. Talk to Doris about going garbage bag-free (Mostly we have done so)
11. Find facial soap that doesn’t come in plastic or make own
FAILED!
1. Replace at least half my frozen lunches with a home-cooked one
2. The Plastic Free website has links to plastic-free lotion and underwear - explore
3. Find out what plastic initiatives are happening locally
4. Explore safer cosmetics, and those that don’t come in plastic
5. Contact a company – maybe The Body Shop – and encourage them to go plastic free
6. Make goals for the rest of the year if I haven’t already
I think #6 is the worst fail. I kept up with what I had done but didn't push myself to do anything else. Well, tomorrow is another day!
Oh, first I should add that there are some things I already do: I never use bottled water and I bring my own bags to the grocery store (and to other stores like Walgreens).
DONE!
1. Find a plastic-free alternative to my hair conditioner (either by Lush or make own)
2. Request “no straw” in restaurants (Most of the time I do this!)
3. Go to the winter farmer’s market
4. Contact Goodge Street Press to get plastic-free thank you cards
5. Return the Tom’s of Maine toothpaste tubes since they recycle them and/or use Lush’s plastic-free “Toothy tabs”
6. At the grocery, buy fewer items that are wrapped in plastic (i.e. replace plastic bags of lettuce with naked ones).
7. Bring own containers to the bulk bin (the store will weigh it first, so they can subtract the weight when they ring it up)
8. Look for other foods that come in plastic and that I can make myself (i.e. – mustard?) We have stopped buying soy milk because of its packaging, and we get all our orange juice from a place that lets us fill up a glass bottle.
9. Find an alternative to hair gel. Try: http://www.thenameisproduct.com/
10. Talk to Doris about going garbage bag-free (Mostly we have done so)
11. Find facial soap that doesn’t come in plastic or make own
FAILED!
1. Replace at least half my frozen lunches with a home-cooked one
2. The Plastic Free website has links to plastic-free lotion and underwear - explore
3. Find out what plastic initiatives are happening locally
4. Explore safer cosmetics, and those that don’t come in plastic
5. Contact a company – maybe The Body Shop – and encourage them to go plastic free
6. Make goals for the rest of the year if I haven’t already
I think #6 is the worst fail. I kept up with what I had done but didn't push myself to do anything else. Well, tomorrow is another day!
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I've used canvas bags for food shopping for years. (In most of Asia, they won't give you bags anyway.) I like to do the 'naked lettuce' thing, but I also bought small mesh bags to use for fruit and other things that you buy multiples of. Then I just wash them and take them back to the store.
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In Austin, not the suburbs, they have gone bag free but most stores offer paper bags... -_- Save the planet by killing the trees. Way to go. I always forget to bring a bag with me but I usually don't get a cart or basket anyways, if I can't hold it in my arms, I don't buy it. Austin's weird and not always in a good way.
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