meg's green finds: eco-chic solution to icky plastic utensils
How many times during the work week do you find yourself dashing out to your local salad/soup/noodle restaurant for some quick takeout lunch and yet another set of those landfill-clogging plastic utensils? These ToGo Ware reusable utensils might just be your new best friend! I know the earth is seriously digging them. The utensils are made of sustainably harvested bamboo and the cute wrap holder is made by WEAVE, a women’s cooperative on the Thai-Burma border. They’d be perfect for a picnic! Available here for $19.95. –Meg D.
Read more of Meg’s tips for stylish, green living at her blog, Style Saves the World.
Man – now I feel really guilty about throwing my plastic fork in the garbage just now, along with the cardboard and plastic wrappers from the frozen dinner I bought for lunch. Big office buildings need to have recycling bins for such things!! How hard could that be??
Yeah, it’s interesting, j — since I work from home, when i do carry-out for lunch I eat it with my own utensils, but it certainly wasn’t always the case. And sometimes I forget to tell them not to give me utensils, and once they have them in the bag, I figure if I hand thm back, they’ll just throw them away. I try to save mine and use them later on camping trips, etc. But are plastic utensils even recyclable? I don’t think they are. The solution is probably to just keep reusable utensils in your desk. Anyone else have insight into the recycling thing?
Unfortunately, most plastic utensils aren’t recyclable. They are making some good, non-plastic biodegradable ones these days, but it’s the rare take-out joint that provides those instead of the super cheap plastic ones. At the very least, you can give plastic utensils a quick wash at work and reuse them throughout the week – those small efforts have to add up to something!