Yes, Quite, Quite Mad
And it seems crazy, after only a few months, to buy something in a container that is used only once, to carry an item from one place to another, after which the container is put in a landfill until roughly the end of time. It is something I had never considered before this year, and now it seems like madness.
Dorie's website
Mmmhmmm.
So after my little panic attack the other day about the environmental impact of my reheated left-overs lunch, I have decided to evaluate our food one product at a time, to prevent a total manic breakdown. I am going to start with meat. We like meat here at Chez Blueday. We don't want a lot of meat, but we want some. We like meat from animals that have been raised humanely and kindly treated until the end of their lives.
Sometimes that meat arrives in our house on plastic trays, always in a plastic bag (inside my 'green' carry bag, of course!). I will make the trip to our local butcher next week, and discover the simplest way to get our meat without a plastic bag being involved. Maybe I will need to take a glass container to put it in. Because even if it is just wrapped in paper, that paper won't be fit for recycling. Maybe it could be composted...
The marvellous thing about plastic bags is that they are so easy.
But so precious, made with all that million year old sunlight.
Dorie's website
Mmmhmmm.
So after my little panic attack the other day about the environmental impact of my reheated left-overs lunch, I have decided to evaluate our food one product at a time, to prevent a total manic breakdown. I am going to start with meat. We like meat here at Chez Blueday. We don't want a lot of meat, but we want some. We like meat from animals that have been raised humanely and kindly treated until the end of their lives.
Sometimes that meat arrives in our house on plastic trays, always in a plastic bag (inside my 'green' carry bag, of course!). I will make the trip to our local butcher next week, and discover the simplest way to get our meat without a plastic bag being involved. Maybe I will need to take a glass container to put it in. Because even if it is just wrapped in paper, that paper won't be fit for recycling. Maybe it could be composted...
The marvellous thing about plastic bags is that they are so easy.
But so precious, made with all that million year old sunlight.
Comments
Having read a few of Dorie's posts (thanks for the link), I feel anxious and worried about our waste - toxic nail polish! Lolly wrappers! Plastic containers.
For my efforts I will continue to minimise our food waste, refuse store packaging, use old towelling and sheets as cleaning rags, make my own yoghurt, not buy clothes this year. I will follow your steps with interest.
Lucinda, I love what you are doing - your clothes fast is great! And you make yoghurt? I have never done that. When I get up to yoghurt, I will consult you.
I have seen pictures of bags knitted out of plastic bag strips. What a good idea to make them last longer, and be given a new life.
frances
Waiting to see what others say,
Jen in NSW
Jen, I have seen some good reviews of the indestructibility of the LLBean tote. I imagine butchers used to use just the old 'butcher's paper'. I think the glossy paper they use now has a plastic coating.. anyone know? I will look into it (puts it on mental list as head begins to implode from information overload).