The Bite:
Fuse together a little green with your red, white, and blue, and have a blast. While we can't make those explosions eco, the Fourth is a great time to celebrate your independence from eco-unfriendly picnicware.
Wanna picnic while the night sky explodes?
07.02.2007
Submitted by tmeronek on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 12:01am.
The Benefits:
- Cutting trash while saving cash. Reusable picnicware leads to smaller landfills and less money spent on disposables.
- Tree savings. If each U.S. household replaces one 40-count package of conventional paper plates with 100% recycled ones, we'll save 487,000 trees.
- Fair wages. Fair-trade picnic supplies are made by workers who earn a living wage.
Personally Speaking:
We use Preserve utensils in the office, even though we have to wash them in the bathroom sink. A few have recently gone missing, though, and we suspect one of us is pilfering them for their own Fourth picnic...
Wanna Try:
- Recycline Preserve Tableware - bright-colored 100% recycled and dishwasher-safe plastic plates, tumblers, and utensils ($6-$18).
- Ten Thousand Villages Lidded Picnic Basket - fair-trade bamboo basket opens on both ends and has two interior compartments ($44).
- To-Go Ware Action Pack - comes with a stainless steel food carrier and fair-trade, lightweight bamboo cutlery ($32).
- Abundant Earth Multi-Striped Colorgrown Tablecloth - organic cotton table cloth, colored without dyes ($29).
- Wrap-N-Mat - washable, reusable sandwich wrap and place mat that replaces plastic baggies ($7).
Carin Apperson
Cocktail Fact
The Japanese company Sekon has developed a firework shell made from biodegradable plastic (from a corn-starch ingredient), wood, and rice.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters go with reusable utensils, in a year we'll keep almost 1.5 million disposable knives, forks, spoons, and sporks outta landfills.
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