This happens with those random house repair type things too. After the big fat learning curve that takes all day and eventually being successful at that repair, all on my own, the next time it has to be addressed, I can’t recall what I did to make it work. Then I have to learn all over again. I’m adaptable, but apparently I don’t value my own efforts well enough to remember them. Or, I black it all out because why must everything always be so much work, all the time?
Around here we can buy multi use nylon-ish bags for fruit, vegetables, and bread. I have a few and rewashed them dozens of times with as only downside that they aren't white anymore, they turned grey-ish. It is not a perfect solution because nylon isn't biodegrable either, but it is better than disposable plastic little bags. Paper bags would work too, and they used to be traditional for vegetables and fruit, but most supermarkets stopped carrying them for some reason.
My brother's partner gave my mom thin sheets of bees-wax paper for putting between foodstuffs. It is washable with cold water and stays clean and fresh easily. Just keep it away from heat.
The mayor downside of straws has always been the tiny diameter, drinking takes forever with those things! So let's make wider straws, this gives more production options because now you can make straws out of gelatin, i.e. bonemeal slurry! Or you can grow them, plenty of plants grow in the form of tubes, so just harvest them at the right time and rinse them out.
I try to order green supplies for work as much as possible, but the real issue is, or has been, that alternatives cost two, three, sometimes four times as much (it's not an issue for *me*, but if bosses happen to peruse a ledger sheet..). I noticed recently that foam items are actually out of stock a lot of places, and I'm assuming the petrochemicals used in production have something to do with that. I hope we start seeing a lot more hemp and bamboo items, and hopefully more competitive pricing.
I have a big bag full of other bags in my back seat. Once groceries etc are unloaded, the empty bag gets hung on the door handle and goes back to the car the next morning. Grabbing a bag or two before I shop has just become second nature, now.
So hit the poor to save the environment. Or at least the parts of the environment that people with money enjoy. That's an option, but a suboptimal one.
The city of Cleveland has just re-started its curbside program as opt-in only. It got cancelled a couple years ago because people were doing a lot of 'wishcycling' or just using the blue bins as extra garbage cans. There was a bit of an uproar when folks started noticing the blue bins were being dumped into the same truck as trash. Now, we've got a list of what can & cannot be recycled; I printed it, put it in a plastic sleeve, and taped it to the top of the can. But I'm still gonna have to monitor what others under our roof do (multi-family housing) cause the opt-in is under MY name.
This happens with those random house repair type things too. After the big fat learning curve that takes all day and eventually being successful at that repair, all on my own, the next time it has to be addressed, I can’t recall what I did to make it work. Then I have to learn all over again. I’m adaptable, but apparently I don’t value my own efforts well enough to remember them. Or, I black it all out because why must everything always be so much work, all the time?
Around here we can buy multi use nylon-ish bags for fruit, vegetables, and bread. I have a few and rewashed them dozens of times with as only downside that they aren't white anymore, they turned grey-ish. It is not a perfect solution because nylon isn't biodegrable either, but it is better than disposable plastic little bags. Paper bags would work too, and they used to be traditional for vegetables and fruit, but most supermarkets stopped carrying them for some reason.
My brother's partner gave my mom thin sheets of bees-wax paper for putting between foodstuffs. It is washable with cold water and stays clean and fresh easily. Just keep it away from heat.
Cool!
Usually it breaks halfway through the first use.
Most Pilsner is divine, I'm with you on IPA though. Fuck IPA.
Update: I had one good IPA recently: Trackdown by Uiltje Brewing Company.I was surprised by how not horrible it was.
The mayor downside of straws has always been the tiny diameter, drinking takes forever with those things! So let's make wider straws, this gives more production options because now you can make straws out of gelatin, i.e. bonemeal slurry! Or you can grow them, plenty of plants grow in the form of tubes, so just harvest them at the right time and rinse them out.
This could be a lucrative opportunity for enterprising border State residents willing to traffic in gently used grocery bags.
I try to order green supplies for work as much as possible, but the real issue is, or has been, that alternatives cost two, three, sometimes four times as much (it's not an issue for *me*, but if bosses happen to peruse a ledger sheet..). I noticed recently that foam items are actually out of stock a lot of places, and I'm assuming the petrochemicals used in production have something to do with that. I hope we start seeing a lot more hemp and bamboo items, and hopefully more competitive pricing.
Or, we could add the damage costs of plastics to their price and suddenly there will be a lot of R&D into greener alternatives.
I have a big bag full of other bags in my back seat. Once groceries etc are unloaded, the empty bag gets hung on the door handle and goes back to the car the next morning. Grabbing a bag or two before I shop has just become second nature, now.
Lazy assed dumb shits. That is a problem that the green movement has been fighting against for ages.
So hit the poor to save the environment. Or at least the parts of the environment that people with money enjoy. That's an option, but a suboptimal one.
The city of Cleveland has just re-started its curbside program as opt-in only. It got cancelled a couple years ago because people were doing a lot of 'wishcycling' or just using the blue bins as extra garbage cans. There was a bit of an uproar when folks started noticing the blue bins were being dumped into the same truck as trash. Now, we've got a list of what can & cannot be recycled; I printed it, put it in a plastic sleeve, and taped it to the top of the can. But I'm still gonna have to monitor what others under our roof do (multi-family housing) cause the opt-in is under MY name.
Would Shapiro buy wood?