It's World Environment Day ...

[KayTheCurler]

I have been away and was greeted by this thread centred on one member AGAIN.

Getting back to World Environment Day prompts me to ask "What items do you use in full knowledge that they are unnecessary and harmful to the environment?"

I confess to too much plastic - bags, storage containers and such like. Hubby and sons use disposable razors - my granddad used the same straight razor for his entire life.

 

[Mendalla]

Hubby and sons use disposable razors - my granddad used the same straight razor for his entire life.

I tried switching to my son's electric but found the triple blade disposables I get at Costco do a better job. May try the electric again before he moves out but I'll have to buy my own soon after that at any rate given that he's gone as of Labour Day. And me with a straight razor is not a sight you want to see. Would be the first slasher movie where the slasher does himself in.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I've been really trying with plastic, and it's very hard.

I have my own grocery bags, and my own net produce bags. I try to buy and store in glass over plastic. But glass is heavy. And it breaks so easily, especially when you're dim enough to have a tile counter top and a tile floor.

Partly because of my terrible allergies, reflected by my skin in the form of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, I make most of my own cosmetics (deodorant, moisturizing cream, bath salts), thus avoiding containers there. For the same reasons, I make most of my own cleaning supplies. For some reason, Palmolive dish detergent doesn't aggravate my skin, so I use it a lot, but I buy it in the monster jug and refill a small container in the kitchen. Same with Dr. Bonner's liquid castile soap.

The other thing I use too much of is paper. I'm pretty good in the kitchen, replacing paper towels with rags, but I don't seem willing to convert to using and washing handkerchiefs instead of tissues.

And cat litter is a nightmare. I used wheat litter for a long time, but at $40 a bag, it's just prohibitive. And it was going in the bin anyway, as it's not the easiest stuff to compost, and you can't use it on anything but flowers.

 

[revjohn]

I tried switching to my son's electric but found the triple blade disposables I get at Costco do a better job. May try the electric again before he moves out but I'll have to buy my own soon after that at any rate given that he's gone as of Labour Day. And me with a straight razor is not a sight you want to see. Would be the first slasher movie where the slasher does himself in.

Shaving is inherently an action of environmental rampage.

Nobody thinks clear-cutting a mountainside is an environmental benefit but clear-cut the side of your head and our backwards society suggests it is the preferable way to present one's self publicly.

 

[Mendalla]

Shaving is inherently an action of environmental rampage.

Nobody thinks clear-cutting a mountainside is an environmental benefit but clear-cut the side of your head and our backwards society suggests it is the preferable way to present one's self publicly.

Well, like you I sport a full beard (though not as full as yours). The shaving is to keep my neck clean. Beard gets trimmed with an electric trimmer once a month or two.

 

[revjohn]

Well, like you I sport a full beard (though not as full as yours). The shaving is to keep my neck clean. Beard gets trimmed with an electric trimmer once a month or two.

My apologies.

You were talking about pruning. That is environmentally friendly.

 

[Jaebius]

We participate in Toronto's blue box recycling program.

What goes in the blue bin & prohibited items

For razors, I use a non-disposable razor with replaceable blades.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I hope that no-one is under the impression that "recycling" is a particularly environmentally friendly activity. At worst, it's a slower trip to the dump. Cans and bottles and fine paper are good candidates. Very little plastic is truly recyclable. Most of it ends up in the ocean, in landfills, in other countries to deal with, etc.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I use too much plastic also. I wish that companies would friggin well cut down on plastic packaging so it's not the consumer shouldering all the plastic reduction burden. Again, there is a market for biodegradables. I have biodegradable "plastic" compost bags. I think they're a vegetable product. Why isn't that material used more? (When they're done -I think I prefer to put the compost in brown paper bags - in this town, we all have a bin that goes out to the curb beside the garbage. Not all compost is good for the garden - at least, certain things, as mentioned above the other day, you might not want to put in your rose garden - but they'd be fine to break down in a wilder environment.)

My work is very environmentally conscious. There are signs with pictures, in the kitchen, about what can go in which bin. Everything is separated into blue bins, green bins - and the smallest black trash can is "other" garbage. We compost anything paper, even dirty wet paper towel. Well, anything but toilet paper. It can be done - it is in Brazil, I read. During the Olympics there was an article about it - but no. I don't think anyone wants the workplace place to smell like an outhouse.

 

[Luce NDs]

Plastic in the forerunner state is formic acid ... distilled from ants primarily. Just for fun ... in some research you may find the term ant-acid ... as it can be converted to polymers ... some essential to human composition ... few are aware of this portion of the humus in the cartoon strip BC ... showing mounds over which Ra rises ... sometimes as the god Thoth as some ministers use in weddings to see who doth connect to hoo-M ... but actually a spin off the word Tao ... right out of a clairvoyant china container ... a fragile grail? With dark fluid in it it could lead to boobs and blunders as something to learn from ... thus alteration ... some learn some don't! Creates a living challenge ... and I've been told I am literally challenged but it falls flat in light of what isn't generally known ... then there are ant' recks as something to provide parts for digestion of ante .. a very dark aria prone to songs about legends we don't know ... Ba aL aid out ... ringing on the mountain ...

 

[Jaebius]

I hope that no-one is under the impression that "recycling" is a particularly environmentally friendly activity. At worst, it's a slower trip to the dump. Cans and bottles and fine paper are good candidates. Very little plastic is truly recyclable. Most of it ends up in the ocean, in landfills, in other countries to deal with, etc.

 

[Luce NDs]

See

Y's Time ...

To encounter the ringing in of "waterboy" on the mountain ... a dead call for response?

Twas a dark pool thingy ... essence, or existence ... that is the question!

Perhaps subtle railroading ...

 

[BetteTheRed]

Reducing and reusing are the much more important items in that trio.

 

[GordW]

Shaving is inherently an action of environmental rampage.

Nobody thinks clear-cutting a mountainside is an environmental benefit but clear-cut the side of your head and our backwards society suggests it is the preferable way to present one's self publicly.

HAving tried the beard, the agreed upon position is that clean shaven is indeed much more presentable than the patchy beard which results...

 

[Jaebius]

HAving tried the beard, the agreed upon position is that clean shaven is indeed much more presentable than the patchy beard which results...

I've never been able to grow anything even approximating a beard. For me, clean shaven is absolutely the way to go.

 

[Mendalla]

I've never been able to grow anything even approximating a beard. For me, clean shaven is absolutely the way to go.

Ah, but do you compost the clippings?

 

[Jaebius]

Ah, but do you compost the clippings?

We have an electric mower and we just leave them on the ground after we've mowed.

Wait a minute... what?

 

[KayTheCurler]

That works for grass clippings - what do you do with your facial hair clippings?

 

[BetteTheRed]

Supposed to discourage squirrels from your tulip bulbs although, in my experience, little separates a squirrel from his tulip bulb caviar...

 

[revsdd]

I've done better than you have. But that's all I can do.

You really are joking, right? I mean you have to be. I invite you to submit an outline of what you feel you've accomplished in your interactions with Jae that have made things even one iota better here on WC2. What I see is that you take shots at him. The shots are sometimes unnecessary and unprovoked - sometimes directed against him when he's made a serious and uncontroversial post - and more often than not they simply result in the two of you having some ridiculous back and forth argument where you both end up taking shots at each other. I for one am finding it increasingly tiresome.

But, enlighten me. Give me the outline of what you actually feel you've accomplished.