Comments on: Year 3, Month 1 Results: 8.8 oz of plastic waste

By: mercuryonthemove

mercuryonthemove — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:59:10 +0000

In terms of the plastic top on Tom's toothpaste, you can remove the screw threads easily just by grabbing that little jobber with a pair of pliers; comes right off.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:10:42 +0000

I love this idea of rounding up the plastic waste for the month. I need to start doing this. I bet I will discover that I use a lot more plastic than I care to think and…that it is time to make some changes. Thank you for the great post!

By: Billie

Billie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:01:15 +0000

Wow! 8oz in a month. I am always so impressed when I see your listing because just the counting of the food plastic has resulted in like 3 times that in a month for me.

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:48:52 +0000

My 4-year-old drinks a lot of milk, and I buy it in re-usable glass bottles. I was recently wondering if you drank milk and if so what you do about the plastic tops. I am alternately disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a better option, and glad to know that I haven't overlooked something obvious.

And that's interesting about the bananas. I'd wondered that myself.

By: Robin Shreeves

Robin Shreeves — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:57:02 +0000

Thanks for the info about the plastic wrapped around organic bananas (I clicked on the link). I always thought it was just a way for the grocery store to make it more obvious to the cashier that they are the organic ones.

By: Pure Mothers

Pure Mothers — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:17:58 +0000

I feel the same about those stickers and other items that aren't really considered "progress", but make it 1 second easier to find where to sign. Since when was 1 second so valuable to us? This past weekend we had a 2nd birthday party for our son and we got a few latex balloons for him. (Disposed of in the trash- we did not 'let go' outside!) When my husband came home I looked at them and noticed a little PLASTIC clamp on top of the knot at the end! How on earth did we enjoy balloons when I was a kid without the extra clamping???

By: Coccinelle

Coccinelle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:50:00 +0000

For the "Sign-Here" stickers, I know what you are talking about since I once used similar stickers in my school books, but I have never seen any. (If you don't count those on your picture ;o)

I dare say that I have signed many forms in my life, but I did not recall to have seen anything other than yellow highlight or, most often, a simple a X written by the person who hand me the form. Or both maybe..

Odd.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:36:20 +0000

I think the contracts them selves were more simple. You only had to sign in one place. No?

Who needs a sticker when you can just sign on the last page?