Everyone needs to grocery shop at some point, fueling the continuing desire to live, even if you're not a big fan of
doing your own cooking. Grocery stores have their own standards for packing bags based upon how to enable your foods to
travel well: cold items with cold items, produce in one bag, don't cram too much in. The last rule is the one that gets
tricky because sometimes it seems like you end up with 10 bags for 10 items when you're leaving the store. It could be
more, if some of the plastic ones are doubled-bagged. Recycling the paper and plastic bags is an excellent idea, but
switching to canvas grocery bags is an even better one. They are reusable, so they help cut down on waste, and many
stores will even give you a per-bag discount for bringing them in! The bags can be purchased at many supermarkets, as
well as being available online, and will pay for themselves in a few uses. They
usually cost from $7-12.Posts with tag reuse
Eco-friendly shopping for Earth Day
Everyone needs to grocery shop at some point, fueling the continuing desire to live, even if you're not a big fan of
doing your own cooking. Grocery stores have their own standards for packing bags based upon how to enable your foods to
travel well: cold items with cold items, produce in one bag, don't cram too much in. The last rule is the one that gets
tricky because sometimes it seems like you end up with 10 bags for 10 items when you're leaving the store. It could be
more, if some of the plastic ones are doubled-bagged. Recycling the paper and plastic bags is an excellent idea, but
switching to canvas grocery bags is an even better one. They are reusable, so they help cut down on waste, and many
stores will even give you a per-bag discount for bringing them in! The bags can be purchased at many supermarkets, as
well as being available online, and will pay for themselves in a few uses. They
usually cost from $7-12.Build a better coffee cup
Starbucks is in the process of replacing their current cups with cups made of 10% recycled paper and their
heat-insulating cup sleeves are already made of recycled paper, but the company may soon have a new,
environmentally-friendly option. A new company based in the Seattle Area, MicroGreen Polymers, says that it has
developed a way to make insulated coffee cups out of recycled plastic bottles. Not only does the company
believe that their cups, which are less than a year away from full commercial production, will be cheaper than the more
traditional paper cups, but the production process creates no harmful gasses. The cups are created
by infusing plastic with tiny air bubbles, creating an air cushion within the material of the cup to protect your
hand from the heat. Because there is less physical material in the cups, the plastic from one bottle can be used to
make five to seven 12-ounce coffee cups. MicroGreen Polymers has signed a development agreement with Reynolds Food
Packaging, so it may not be long before a new wave of eco-friendly materials hit the stores.
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