Comments on: Because Plastic is Forever!

By: on being radical. at Green Girls Global Blog

on being radical. at Green Girls Global Blog — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:21:07 +0000

[...] In this way, over the course of years, this individual citizen continued the drumbeat about our increasingly plastic ocean. Every piece of plastic we produce–the plastic cup we use for one drink, the plastic tampon [...]

By: Sin título - Green Girls Global Blog

Sin título - Green Girls Global Blog — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:06:31 +0000

[...] While they haven’t max-ed out their green-factor–the product itself is (eek!) plastic–we give them lots of green girls points for trying. And everything has to start somewhere. Jimi uses 100% post-industrial waste plastic, the product is recyclable, and made with fair-wage, U.S.-based labor. Also, as a member of the 1% for the environment alliance, Jimi donates 1% of all sales to environmental initiatives. So +50 points to Jimi for being a company that green girls can feel good about when shopping. [...]

By: Andy Dabydeen

Andy Dabydeen — Sun, 13 May 2007 01:59:23 +0000

Great post. It’s hard not to get depressed about all of this.

By: Charles Lake

Charles Lake — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:57:00 +0000

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By: byeh

byeh — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:21:04 +0000

video is eye-opening!!

great post! !

-B

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:12:28 +0000

Thank you for all the ideas!

By: Miwa

Miwa — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:39:48 +0000

Steph: Hadn’t thought about polystyrene in the workplace, but that’s a great place to start!

How about writing a letter to your office building management about eliminating polystyrene from the cafeteria waste stream?

Let’s take even a modest office building–my office is a government building with nine floors, and probably houses about 1800 workers. I’d say on average at least 30% of those purchase a cup of coffee every day. That’s 540 cups of coffee every day. If we were to eliminate polystyrene–just the coffee cups–that would be 135,000 foam coffee cups eliminated from the waste stream each year!
(Assuming a 250 day work year.)

And let’s say, just a few of us did this, and did it successfully. The way it multiplies out is pretty impressive!

Awesome!

By: Bossytoe

Bossytoe — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:09:58 +0000

RAR to polystyrene plastic for being so deceptively bad and a big ROCK IT to Miwa for the informative post!

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:17:35 +0000

doh! my company serves salads to go in those evil clamshell plastic containers! they recently completely eliminated styrofoam, but i guess the effort to go green continues . . . will write a letter. thanks for the post, miwa!

By: Miwa

Miwa — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:21:10 +0000

Oh, I know. Pfft is right!

A year ago, I had to do SOMEthing for a large fundraiser I was organizing, so I used these.

They are made from sugarcane processing waste, and I have to say–if you must go disposable–they worked out pretty well!