Category Archives: Garbage

Home Made Glue

When the perfect box for my long imagined solar cooker project showed up on the curb across the street, I was happier than any normal 40 year old should be. After choosing a plan from SolarCooking.org and doing all the … Continue reading

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Review of Overfly Brand Safety Razor

I said that I would do this if anybody double dog dared me. That was meant to be a lighthearted movie allusion to add some color to this otherwise quite boring green blog. Somebody dared me, in the comments, about … Continue reading

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Alternatives to Plastic Bubble Wrap

I owe somebody an apology. Back a few months ago I wrote a post about Virtual Bubble Wrap. That post is ranking at the top of Google for the term Alternatives to Plastic Bubble Wrap and obviously the cute little … Continue reading

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Plastic on the Beach: Part Six

I did more picking up and less photography than usual today. I even picked up the broken tricycle that I had seen on a previous trip. Because it was such a windy day, I didn’t think that I would find … Continue reading

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Are You Up For a Challenge?

Beth Terry over at FakePlasticFish has just put up a blog post asking everyone to tally and photograph a week’s worth of personal plastic consumption. This sounds like a great project and I hope she gets a broad spectrum of … Continue reading

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Recycling is the Catchiest ‘R’ Word

I just took a quick look at the partnership between the Sierra Club and Staples that encourages people to recycle their old cell phones and PDAs. The third partner in this program is Collective Good and they actually focus on … Continue reading

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Enjoy Coffee With Less Plastic

Coffee is arguably the most important commodity in the world. In terms of dollars and cents, it is #2 after oil. Coal is said to have fueled the industrial revolution, but coffee was there as well. Its effect on the … Continue reading

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Review of a Reduced Plastic Toothbrush

I bought this toothbrush today. It is a Trisa brand toothbrush with that comes with two sets of bristles. The bristle heads snap on securely. I had to apply quite a bit of force to remove the head from the … Continue reading

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Packing Peanuts

Photo Credit: ThrasherDave When I worked at JustUs Coffee, I had a coworker who was quite vocal about his hatred of Styrofoam packing peanuts. We were a production facility in the middle of major steady expansion, so we ended up … Continue reading

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Answering Questions About Plastic

Q&A web pages like Yahoo Answers offer a chance for people who feel strongly about a cause like plastic reduction to speak to people who aren’t blog readers or tweeters. I am talking about people who ask questions like “is … Continue reading

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