Comments on: Reducing Plastic Waste: April 2010 Collection Results

By: :: tidbits of green :: | Recycle Your Day

:: tidbits of green :: | Recycle Your Day — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:13:34 +0000

[...] some inspiration to CUT BACK on PLASTIC…. Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish, gives her plastic tally for [...]

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:00:13 +0000

Beth, Thank you so much for all the info.You’ve really encouraged me to cut out the plastic! I’ll be switching cat litters soon. I’m so glad you fixed the site. I too had the lovely experience of spam this weekend. Luckily, I panicked and didn’t click on anything. My real reason for commenting is the canola oil. There has been a lot of research and info posted in the last few years about how unnatural canola is. There is no “canola” plant. We have switched to olive oil for most oil needs. I use EVOO when I’m not cooking it and regular olive oil for cooking, coconut oil for frying or browning.

By: Nick Palmer

Nick Palmer — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:57:09 +0000

Glad to see people remember about the plastic element in tea bags as it seems to be me who first raised it when I discovered hundreds of "ghosts" in my wormer. It may not be possible to make definitive statements about teabags because tea bag manufacturers are provided with the paper from third parties. All you can do is write to your favourite tea's manufacturer and ask. In some cases I have found that their customer services staff do not know the full truth. They may say that their bags are compostable but (in the UK at least) they can claim that if a substance is 95% or greater compostable, then it can legally be described as compostable. This does not mean that there will not be a residue which won't break down. As the plastic in many teabags is about 3% of the fibre then a simple query to the manufacturers may get a misleading answer. .-= Nick Palmer´s last blog ..Wing walking is so passé =-.

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:21:37 +0000

OMG, I totally posted that song!

Here: http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/04/youtube-presents-bags-bottles/

And here: http://fakeplasticfish.com/multi-media/

LOVE that video.

By: Beany

Beany — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:21:53 +0000

Beth, I haven't seen you post this song before, but it is the perfect song for you!

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:35:45 +0000

Oh, and no, the kitties don't seem to chew on the cords. So now, with the metal washers, we can leave the cords down and let them play with them all they want. It makes them happy. And we don't have to worry about hiding tassels up high, which is hard for me because I am short and have to stand on a chair to put them beyond kitty reach. Nice idea about glass bottles, but I seriously doubt Kaiser would be into it. I can't pick my pharmacy. .-= Beth Terry´s last blog ..Plastic-Free Living: Let’s Talk =-.

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:33:18 +0000

Hi Claire. Yeah, I thought I was in heaven when I discovered border-radius because I hate having to make images for the corners of my boxes and then figure out how to put all the pieces together. It’s irritating to me that IE refuses to understand border-radius, so I’ll just let the corners be square in IE. It’s the content that matters, right? :-)

Plus, I think the images load more slowly.

By: claire

claire — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:23:35 +0000

about the curvy corners, I haven’t looked at your code, but I have curved corners on my website and they work fine in IE, so it’s doable. I use image backgrounds for the corners (you can use one image that’s a circle), I assume you’re using the “border-radius” property?

about the pill bottles, I was wondering if you could ask your pharmacy to special order you some glass medicine bottles (maybe if you paid the price difference), but it still sucks that they can’t refill them. even glass bottles have to be manufactured and shipped (probably in plastic) and everything.

I love the kitty picture! my cat loves the tassels too but I try to hide them from him. does your cat eat the string too?

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:47:32 +0000

No – I didn’t click through – but I was paranoid for a bit…

Ah – curvy corners. No problem then. Technology is such a double edged sword, isn’t it? Thanks Beth. Your website has been a great inspiration for me. There are lots out there (as the aformentioned blogroll page shows) but you strike just the right tone that keeps me inspired, not scolded or hopeless. Round or square box corners no matter.

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:51:33 +0000

Amy, so sorry you got redirected to the spam site! That sucks. I hope you didn't click on anything. It's all fixed now. The curvy corners thing is a different issue, so thank you for reminding me of it. It's not hackery, and it's not dangerous for you. Curvy Corners is a little program that is supposed to make box corners look rounded in Internet Explorer, because IE, unlike Firefox, does not interpret CSS codes properly (don't worry if you don't know what that means.) But it's not working properly, and I don't have the time to figure out why it's not working properly, so I'm just going to remove it and let those with IE see sharp corners instead of curvy ones. .-= Beth Terry´s last blog ..Fake Plastic Fish on the Radio =-.