Comments on: In Hell, they drink Le Froglet wine in individual plastic wine glasses

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:57:06 +0000

Wow, M, you’re right. That’s even worse! Here’s the URL for the site, which I just posted on Facebook:

http://www.singlz.co.nz/index.html

It’s bad enough to have a single serving plastic wine glass full of wine. But a plastic bottle that comes with a separate plastic glass is just too much.

By: M

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:01:09 +0000

I saw these today and I couldn’t believe there could possibly be a wine with more plastic waste than what you posted, but it looks like there is!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51221241@N02/4757986261/

It was a small plastic bottle of wine WITH an individual plastic “glass” for each plastic bottle.

By: Piper

Piper — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:20:55 +0000

Those Kleenex hand towels really bugged me, too. Especially after last summer when I hiked through a clear-cut owned by Kimberly Clark on the Pacific Crest Trail.

I’m sure that a lot of these crazy things, like individually wrapped prunes, are just the packaging industry coming up with a way to increase their own sales and doing a marketing job on the prune industry who then says what a great idea and then figures out a way to sell it to us. Wow, you can eat prunes now without getting your fingers all sticky! Someday they will figure out a way to sell us individually wrapped grains of rice, or individually wrapped single-serving tooth paste that comes in a box so the Kimberly Clark people can cut down a few more trees at the same time the plastics people can rejoice they found a new way to make us buy more plastic that we don’t even want and now have to pay to dispose of.

By: claire

claire — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:58:23 +0000

alil, about the bread– you should try asking whoever makes the bread if they would put one in a paper or cloth bag for you when they’re packaging them (maybe if you provided the bag). find out when they make it and arrange to pick it up at a certain time. have you tried bakeries (either a bakery shop or at a supermarket)? there’s also the option of making your own bread, of course.

and yes, the apples irk me. mcdonald’s came out with those a while ago as a healthy snack alternative for kids, which is all well and good, but they’re presliced and packaged in plastic. one thing that bothers me is that if you buy starburst candy in a box, instead of lining them all up in a row and filling the box to capacity (they are SQUARE after all), they’re packaged in a plastc bag inside the box with lots of room to spare. why wouldn’t they package them in a box in rows in the first place and eliminate their plastic bag packaging entirely? they’d have to redesign their machines, but I’m sure they can figure that out.

By: Rebecca The Greeniac

Rebecca The Greeniac — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:15:23 +0000

OMG… I just read the comment about the rice in individual packages… help…

By: Rebecca The Greeniac

Rebecca The Greeniac — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:08:13 +0000

What’s next… individually wrapped grains of rice?

I recently attended a local “handmade homemade market club” which was really cool. People all brought homemade stuff to sell/swap. But there was this woman selling homemade yogurt in individual little plastic containers…. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! I didn’t say anything, but I’m going to be a vendor at the next market, and I’m bringing everything in bulk and offering people free re-used jars or handmade reusable cloth bags to take it home in. Maybe leading by example will help?

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:43:36 +0000

Yep next they will convince us we need disposable clothing because the germs are just too much, yes we have billions of germs, but we also have these amazing things called wait for it… immune systems.
The single use home hand towels are what got me, Hate the advertising, as if using a beautiful cotton towel is gross, get over yourself.

By: alil

alil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:51:01 +0000

I finally found a way to contact Klennex and Kimberly Clark about those horrible hand towels. – I found it after going to their page about how they are all into being sustainable.

However, I’m feeling really bad today I did really bad in terms of using throw away plastic stuff, every meal I ate out (I was taken out 2x today) was in plastic or served on plastic.

I’ve also been looking around to see where I can cut out my plastic use. It looks like there’s no non plastic wrapped bread options for me. There is a farmer’s market where fresh bread is sold but – it’s all in plastic.

Oh! To get back to the insanity I bought Arnolds Sandwich Thins – they are sealed in plastic in side the plastic bag! Since I can’t find any non plastic bread options this seemed like the best choice since the bags are smaller, but not with the double plastic.

By: Lara S.

Lara S. — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:13:20 +0000

Once I bought a box of whole rice, and then found out that the rice came in many little plastic baggies inside the box. Each baggie was the size of a portion and came with tiny holes in it. The box actually suggests boiling the rice IN the bag, then when you take it out of the bag it will be cooked AND STRAINED. I mean who has the time to strain the rice, right…?
In this case the food came with a carton box, many individually wrapped portions and, if you cook the rice the way the box says you should, you might also get some yummy toxins in it!! Yay! I think it’s almost as bad as the prunes :S

By: Raylene P

Raylene P — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:02:16 +0000

About kids- I have two very young children and our total household waste is one small trash bag every week or so. Cloth diapering, breastfeeding, eating straight from the table (instead of jarred baby food), carrying the baby around in an ergo carrier helps. For lunch on the go, we use lunchskins instead of ziploc plastic bags, cloth napkins, and stainless steel containers for food and water (no juice, only whole fruits here too).

The kids know not to expect special treatment for food- they eat what’s on the table or not at all. That eliminates the pickiness factor and it is easier to pack one lunch for all. I am still working on reducing our overall plastic trash though. mothering.com is a good resource for eco-moms.