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.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
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??
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 am
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?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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!