Products You Might Want to Try
drTung's Ecosentials: Smart Floss - A high quality dental floss that comes in a paper/cardboard container instead of a plastic container. Reduces Plastics.
Bon Ami - a kitchen cleanser that cleans without harsh chemicals and is sold in a cardboard rather than a plastic container. This product has been around for years and is widely available. It's wonderful. Reduces toxins and reduces plastics.
Pacific Spirit Shampoo Bar - a shampoo that comes in a cardboard box instead of a plastic container. It looks and acts like a bar of soap, but is used on the hair. Reduces Plastics.
Habits
During sunny weather, dry clothes outside on a clothesline: The clothes smell fresh, and it uses no fossil fuels and costs almost nothing. Solar energy at work. Inspire the neighbors. Reduces global warming, toxins, and manufacturing waste.
Carry a cup, fork, spoon, and knife in your backpack or purse so that if you go out for coffee or lunch where they would otherwise offer you disposable cups and utensils, you can just reuse your nice cup utensils from home. Purpose: avoid single-use. Of course, eating at home is even more honorable, but going out is fun. It turns out that "compostable" utensils--manufactured for the purpose of single-use--are very strong and lasting, so ideal for multiple use, and easy to carry in purse or backpack. They aren't brittle and weak like the old "plastic," "disposable" utensils. For a coffee cup, I just take a nice ceramic one out of the cupboard, or enamel-ware. "Compostable" cups and utensils are a step in the right direction, but single-use is not. Even compostables cause trouble with the environment during manufacture and transport of the product, and composting depends on the conditions around the product after it is "thrown out". Reduces land-fill and manufacturing waste.
