We live in a rural area and when out walking or walking the mile into town we have to take a large king size pillow case with us to pick up all the plastic bags, food containers that either get tossed or accidentally get blown on to the road area.

Thankfully many of the roadways here in the Sierras have Adopt A Highway group who from now until fall will be walking the roads once a week to pick up the trash.

But visit a camp ground and you see hundreds of plastic bottles, food containers in the garbage cans.  Often wonder of any of them get recycled.  A few of us go visit on Sundays and go thru the bins and grab the bottles which on a good day can fetch us $25 at the recycling center.  One Sunday we got enough plastic bottles from two camp grounds to fill ten 30 gallon homemade cloth bags.

http://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news.....gle-use-pl

heres a review of the paints themselves:

http://www.dailycandy.com/san-.....-Eco-Paint

Have you tried argan oil, i buy pure organic argan oil from Ebay, it comes in a glass bottle, some have the pump spray already in the bottle but some do not.  I have not very plastic free bleached blonde hair and this makes it feel like real hair instead of straw!!  I work it in to damp hair before drying.  You would need to experiment with the amount needed, better to add a liittle at a time, I have discovered that a small amount can be added to dry hair.  I also use this on my face and body as a non-toxic, chemical free and natural moisturiser every day.

Right now I've been using hot oil treatments for moisturizing and keeping my hair not too tangly, but the oils all come in plastic bottles, so I have to work on that. I'm glad to see the recommendations here. 

Also relevant - I have hip-length or a bit longer hair, and hard water. 

What about the foil wrapped cream cheese packages?

You can find wooden rain barrels. We had one. I bet there is a metal container out there you could use. Or create. 

But I'm guessing this will not work for a large garden.  Anyone have suggestions?