How many ziploc bags do you use a month? a week? a day? We mom's love that handy zipper bags make transporting snacks easier, keep bathroom stuff sealed tight when we travel and store things...all sorts of things. What do you do with those little handy things when the use has been fulfilled? Throw it in the trash...I say not!
First off, plastic is horrible for the environment (but I know you already know that!) Instead of disposing after one use REUSE and REUSE...it's plastic for pete's sake. Use hot water, a drop of soap, a bit of a soak then rinse and hang to dry. Saving money and yucky plastic!
Want to take it a bit further?
*Use non-disposable containers for travel snacks like this snack bowl from Gerber.
*Buy a eco-friendly lunch box. Kathryn posted about the plastic bento box earlier in the year and I'm keeping my eye out for one for Afton's kindergarten lunch box.
*Use tin foil to wrap up leftovers, sandwiches, etc.
What else can you do to lower zip bag waste?
3 comments:
*chuckles* you were always the environmentally minded one in the fam.
I can't reuse the bags...just something I can't do. Probably why I preferr the containers... I'm not a good NW person I guess...cause I'm sure there is at least 4 of those bags in my garbage right now...
I snorkel and clean out trash out of the river...does that offset me? ;)
a river cleaner is as NW as it gets hon!
I have been thinking the exact same thing as I use several each day to pack lunches. i think I need to break down and buy the bento lunch boxes...
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