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Just thinking about plastic packaging. I was a little pissed off just now, making coffee. Yesterday I bought a new type of plant based coffee creamer, on sale, just to try it, and it was a good deal. I’ve had almond, soy, rice milk, etc. in coffee, and it pretty much tastes like dirty dishwater to me, but this one is intended to be a lower calorie cream substitute without the chemical preservatives that come with the popular flavoured creamers - it tastes good. It’s in a plastic bottle like those, though. And usually, in my experience, those bottles have a plastic top and a vacuum seal under the top. This one had the plastic top and a sealed plastic screw cap underneath - redundant, and caught me by surprise. Why are these companies allowed to get away with changes that use more, not less, plastic? Why can’t all of the brands be in cardboard cartons or other environmentally friendly packaging, like glass bottles? They really put it all on the consumer, when it’s their responsibility at the source.
 
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This topic is very close to my heart and very much on my mind. As we speak, I'm rinsing a glass jar to reuse to store something in. As an experiment, I began to crochet a sleeping mat from grocery bags (just the "shiny" ones) for use by people who are homeless. They aren't the easiest to work with and it'll take some practice, but that's the kind of thing I engage in on a personal level. I won't run out to buy new eco stuff though. I'll use my existing plastic, maybe put the tupperware in my will! For seven generations! Plastic should be thought of like Marley's chain but way heavier.
I shake my fist in the general direction of plastic billionaires everywhere. May a team from the legal firm of the Archangel Michael pay them a visit.
 
ninjafaery said:
This topic is very close to my heart and very much on my mind. As we speak, I'm rinsing a glass jar to reuse to store something in. As an experiment, I began to crochet a sleeping mat from grocery bags (just the "shiny" ones) for use by people who are homeless. They aren't the easiest to work with and it'll take some practice, but that's the kind of thing I engage in on a personal level. I won't run out to buy new eco stuff though. I'll use my existing plastic, maybe put the tupperware in my will! For seven generations! Plastic should be thought of like Marley's chain but way heavier.
I shake my fist in the general direction of plastic billionaires everywhere. May a team from the legal firm of the Archangel Michael pay them a visit.
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You certainly have a gift with words that pack a punch! Well said.
 
But...yogurt. I know I could make my own, but ultra high fat creamy greek yogurt?

And friggin' cat food. I have an extraordinarily fussy 10 year old ragdoll. At present, the only wet food that she will consider is the Whiskas perfect portions, in the little plastic single serving bins. She does not like food that has been refrigerated, but she sniffs at any suggestion of "stale". She needs the extra wet food kidney support as she ages.

I love my glass straw, though, and I do not get the purchases of bottled water that flow through my register. There is water, chilled, and water, room temperature, in a number of containers in my house.
 
BetteTheRed said:
But...yogurt. I know I could make my own, but ultra high fat creamy greek yogurt?

And friggin' cat food. I have an extraordinarily fussy 10 year old ragdoll. At present, the only wet food that she will consider is the Whiskas perfect portions, in the little plastic single serving bins. She does not like food that has been refrigerated, but she sniffs at any suggestion of "stale". She needs the extra wet food kidney support as she ages.

I love my glass straw, though, and I do not get the purchases of bottled water that flow through my register. There is water, chilled, and water, room temperature, in a number of containers in my house.
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I have the yogurt conundrum too. Maybe we just have to choose our plastic. I get upset about huge islands of plastic in the ocean and sea animals harmed by all the garbage. I can't even look at the images anymore.
 
Here you go Bette...lol

I haven't mastered resizing copied images (they are all too huge to paste here), but I've seen some pretty imaginative yogurt container crafts. How about a row of pink bunnies with pipe cleaner whiskers.
Knew you'd love that.

Not a bad little pail with a handle can be made from the container as a sand pail or for picking berries

 
ninjafaery said:
sea animals harmed by all the garbage.
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One thing I for sure do? When I purchase a package of cans in a plastic "keep it together sort of net" (the soft plastic with 4-6 holes), I know that this plastic is not recycled, but often garbaged, so I very carefully cut every loop with scissors so no critter's neck can get trapped.
 
Buying all those googly eyes from Dollarama isn't eco friendly though.
 
BetteTheRed said:
One thing I for sure do? When I purchase a package of cans in a plastic "keep it together sort of net" (the soft plastic with 4-6 holes), I know that this plastic is not recycled, but often garbaged, so I very carefully cut every loop with scissors so no critter's neck can get trapped.
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I wish everyone did that.
 
ninjafaery said:
Here you go Bette...lol

I haven't mastered resizing copied images (they are all too huge to paste here), but I've seen some pretty imaginative yogurt container crafts. How about a row of pink bunnies with pipe cleaner whiskers.
Knew you'd love that.

Not a bad little pail with a handle can be made from the container as a sand pail or for picking berries

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They're totally cute. But Lucy and I are serious yogurt lovers (well, not her so much, but good for her tummy). In a "normal week", we probably produce the containers from: a kg container of greek honey yogurt, a 4 pack of greek lemon meringue in the little pots and one or two 250 g containers of high fat yogurt. That's a lot of friggin' containers every week.
 
BetteTheRed said:
They're totally cute. But Lucy and I are serious yogurt lovers (well, not her so much, but good for her tummy). In a "normal week", we probably produce the containers from: a kg container of greek honey yogurt, a 4 pack of greek lemon meringue in the little pots and one or two 250 g containers of high fat yogurt. That's a lot of friggin' containers every week.
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That's alot of pink bunnies (I was kidding, by the way. You don't strike me as the pink bunny type).
 
But in response to Kimmio's original post (I'm certain she would like the pink bunnies), how to pressure manufacturers...send the plastics back to them in a shipping container, take up a collection then bill them? Boycott manufacturers that over package. Cannabis bought from the guvermint is grossly overpackaged. Unrecyclable plastic jars to hold 1 gram of dried material. Shameful.
 
No, but we do produce enough plastic, Lucy and Atwood and I, to supply craft supplies for a small daycare centre. That is a bit frightening to me.
 
ninjafaery said:
Cannabis bought from the guvermint is grossly overpackaged. Unrecyclable plastic jars to hold 1 gram of dried material. Shameful.
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I hate the heavy plastic sealed bags. They're not big enough even for a sandwich. And tuna cans are aluminum, but painted and with zip top lid in addition to the plastic lid.

...who buys a g at a time...
 
BetteTheRed said:
I hate the heavy plastic sealed bags. They're not big enough even for a sandwich. And tuna cans are aluminum, but painted and with zip top lid in addition to the plastic lid.

...who buys a g at a time...
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What tuna are you buying? We buy No Name Chunk Light and they are old fashioned 170g tins with a paper label that you crank open with a can opener.

Mrs. M is great at reusing stuff. We buy nuts in big zip-lock bags at Costco and when they are empty, they get used as freezer bags. Just filled about 3 with chicken parts today.
 
It is a really bad example, especially when the local liquor stores are so responsible about glass recycling. It's all this daft Canada Post/provincial rules crap. I confess to not yet having made a "legal" purchase, lol, although I wasn't unhappy a few years ago to ditch my "ex-biker who lived 15 k away and charged $10/gram for crap that I will not tell you what we called". It appeared to be bulk Mexican crap.
 
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