I barely ride public transit in San Diego because I ride everywhere. But I thought of riding the bus in January so that I can get some reading in (it is hard to read and bicycle). I thought you could use San Diego’s compass card in your reminder letter writing campaign to BART. The Compass card here is made of plastic and reusable and reloadable.

Just wanted to let you know I really enjoy reading your blog! All this ‘green stuff’ is just new for me, but I’m really trying and learning to be a litte more green myself. You’re an inspiration!

Regards,

Vera, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

One day, I forgot my cloth bag on a trip to Target. I was determined to squash all my products into one bag. I took them out of the 4 bags the clerk had them in, explained and why, then handed her the 3 other bags back. She smiled and acknowleged me in a kind way, but then just threw the bags in the trash. I don’t think she really “got” what I was trying to accomplish. She wasn’t being malicious. Anyway, your post took me back to that place.

I wonder if they gave it to another customer?

I though you might get a kick out of what I did today… I was inspired by your letter to LaundryTree about plastic packaging!

I’ve been buying bars of a locally made shampoo for about a year now… I love the stuff! It came wrapped in paper, and was made a block away, though I always bought it at the store due to business hours. Today I went to the store, and it was wrapped in PLASTIC. I went right to the manufacturer down the street from me and asked if I could have “naked” shampoo instead, as I had noticed it was package in plastic at the store. The woman behind the counter gladly brought me a few bars, discounted them because of the lack of packaging (!), and then asked if I hasn’t bought it at the store because of the plastic. I said “yes”, of course. Hopefully that will give them something to think about!

And, if she’s willing to give me $1 off each bar because of saved packaging… think about how much MONEY companies AND us could ALL save without packaging!

I’ll work on it – specifically Amazon.

I did notice they didn’t mention BART on the list of “Eventually, all of the following Bay Area transit agencies will also accept TransLink:”, but i agree with jennconspiracy that it was def. alluded to in other literature. It’s a plastic CC, as you can see in the pics.