Comments on: One Week Without Plastic (Part 2)

By: statler

statler — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:30:04 +0000

Maybe the plastic lobby got her? o.O

We’ll send a rescue team….

By: uk visas

uk visas — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:52:10 +0000

Hi Sherri
You’ve gone quiet on us… I hope all is OK with you… please, let us know when you’ll be back!

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:05:32 +0000

Sherri,
Try this out. For the past several months I’ve been switching my plastic food storage containers for glass ones with rubber lids. You can find them a lot of places that sell kitchen stuff. They’re of course a little more costly up front but have saved us a lot of money in having to constantly replace worn out plastic, they are easier to keep clean since they don’t stain and you can reheat food in them without worrying about the stuff plastic gives off.

Regarding the bread, many times our local bakery has their bread in paper bags instead of plastic.

If the oil you meant is cooking oil, most of the olive oil I buy is in glass bottles with metal lids. Of course I guess there is part of the inside spout that’s plastic though.

I can see this experiment would prove very challenging. I applaud your efforts and hope to hear how it all came out. Maybe I’ll have incentive to try a few more things myself. How exactly does powdered milk in paper bag work? Sounds interesting. Hope your class went well and the craziness has subsided.

By: sherri

sherri — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:41:40 +0000

Lots of updates coming! Just haven’t had a chance to write in a little while. (We’re in Orlando launching the first 5-day run of our Network Forensics class, and prepping 50 netbooks for students during the last couple of weeks was crazy.) All kinds of developments regarding yogurt production, valiant attempts to obtain non-plasticy non-UHT milk, experiments with powdered milk in paper bags, and more…

By: mogradin

mogradin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:16 +0000

Hey, so are we going to see an update? Did you find a way to purchase most of these products? My local grocery sells meat and lunchmeat in paper wrappers, so I can at least get away from plastic there. rice comes in a cardboard box. one of my local stores also carries milk in glass bottles, and eggs all come in paper cartons.

As far as TP, you may be SOL.

no pun intended.

By: Cameron Johnson

Cameron Johnson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:37:50 +0000

The book “Clean: The Humble Art of Zen Cleansing” by Michael DeJong will cover the detergents angle. It lists simple recipes for recreating most chemical compositions we use as daily cleansing agents.

Travel Light

By: nickhacks

nickhacks — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:01:44 +0000

Check out http://fakeplasticfish.com/ if you haven’t yet..

By: ne

ne — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:25 +0000

Yogurt is sometimes available in glass packaging.

By: Miah

Miah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:18 +0000

I never gave into bottled water. I grew up on well water and the water provided by my local city has always been tasty. I have a nice stainless bottle at home and work. I just turn the tap, its basically free.

By: uk visas

uk visas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:44:14 +0000

Ice cream as a necessity – nice touch
Eggs come in plastic!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:41:53 +0000

Depending on where you live, you might be able to get yogurt in reusable ceramic mug-things, that you can take back to the store after use.

For the other stuff, think about ways you can buy them in bulk and put them in glass jars. You can get mason jars for about a buck in a lot of markets.

By: Brent Logan

Brent Logan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:23:26 +0000

Yogurt actually shouldn’t be that tough, if you’re willing to make your own.