It’s time to stick to your resolution for the new year
This year, switch out your disposable foodware habit for a reusable one to save resources and cash, and you'll be in vogue for 2009.
Start to pay attention to the disposables you use each day, and switch to reusable options (at bars, restaurants, home, wherever):
Food storage
Forget plastic and use health-friendly foodware. Some plastics, such as PVC (look for #3 inside the recycle symbol on the container) and polystyrene (#6), contain hormone disruptors and other chems that can leach into food.
Did you know that doctors recommend that you don't microwave plastic (!); ceramic and glass go from fridge to microwave and back again without leaching toxins.
Water bottles
We won’t stop saying it, plastic water bottles need to be replaced. Plastic water bottles require 1.5 million barrels of oil each year to make.
Polycarbonate plastic used in bottles by Nalgene and other companies leaches bisphenol-A, which is linked to birth defects, miscarriage, and prostate cancer.
Cut the junk by cutting your disposable cup habit. Instead of a foam or paper cup, sip your daily dose out of your own travel mug if you are on the go, or ask the café for a "to stay" mug if you have a few minutes to hang.Or Try this genius reusable porcelain coffee to-go cup from www.urbanoutfitters.com
Polystyrene (aka Styrofoam coffee cups) can actually disrupt your hormones, and the chlorine used to bleach paper cups creates carcinogenic dioxins during production.
If you purchase one cup of coffee every day in a disposable container, you create about 23 lb of waste each year. Try this genius reusable porcelain coffee to-go cup from Urbanoutfitters.com
Disposable foodware is sometimes unavoidable, but if 10,000 persons fill their own mugs at the café every day, in a year we'll avert the weight of 1,517 baristas in disposable-cup waste.
To read more tips on how to replace plates, utensils and chopsticks visit Idealbite.com
Posted by on 01/05 at 01:33 PM