Reduce plastic waste :: PlasticLess.com

New sports shoes from German manufacturer Puma will soon be shipped in a reusable bag made from recycled plastic. There is still a piece of cardboard inside, but it is easier to recycle and uses less resources than the traditional shoebox.

I hope this will put reusable bags in the hands of consumers that will actually use them in place of disposable bags.

I needed to buy new shoes for my kids last week and I was disheartened to find that they were in a clear plastic bag inside a shoebox. I can reuse or recycle the bags but they seemed really unnecessary.

Source : http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/13/puma.bag.design.sustainability/index.html

I try to reduce the amount of packaging that I bring into my house but sometimes I impulsively buy something just because I like the packaging. I tell myself that I can reuse that packaging. I don’t have a specific need for that material but I somehow just know that it is the solution to a problem that I don’t even know I have. This morning as I was putting away the empty egg containers that I actually do use (for containing eggs that are sold unpackaged from the back of a truck), I saw an old frenemy in the back of the cupboard. The burlap potato bag that I bought this winter.

As I wondered what to do with it for about the hundredth time it dawned on me that I should just write this post asking for suggestions. So what do you think I should do with this material?