Comments on: Plastic Madness On Halloween http://www.seanursery.com/water/158 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:27:19 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish http://www.seanursery.com/water/158/comment-page-1#comment-5290 Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:29:12 +0000 http://seanursery.com/water/158#comment-5290 "how do we move away from our obsession with plastic?" A great question with which I've been living and to which I've been finding answers for the last year and a half. Here's my list of plastic-free changes to date: <a href="http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/thelist" rel="nofollow">http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/thelist</a> Would love to connect with you and add any of your plastic-related posts to the Plastic-free Posse. Would you consider adding a topic called "Plastic" and tagging your relevant posts with that label? Trying to create a lot more awareness of this issue throughout the blogosphere: <a href="http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2008/10/voices-of-plastic-free-blogosphere-part.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2008/10/voices-of-plastic-free-blogosphere-part.html</a> Beth “how do we move away from our obsession with plastic?”

A great question with which I’ve been living and to which I’ve been finding answers for the last year and a half. Here’s my list of plastic-free changes to date:

http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/thelist

Would love to connect with you and add any of your plastic-related posts to the Plastic-free Posse. Would you consider adding a topic called “Plastic” and tagging your relevant posts with that label?

Trying to create a lot more awareness of this issue throughout the blogosphere:

http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2008/10/voices-of-plastic-free-blogosphere-part.html

Beth

]]> By: Jason http://www.seanursery.com/water/158/comment-page-1#comment-5277 Jason Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:40:02 +0000 http://seanursery.com/water/158#comment-5277 To be fair, it is not just Halloween that is plastic madness. It is pretty much any holiday these days. And the answer is the same. Be mindful of your consumption. Be creative in your creations. It is possible to do the holidays in a sustainable fashion. But folks just don't take the time to think how they could festoon themselves and their abodes with natural materials that are more Earth friendly. One small change that I am making is getting some <a href="http://www.re-modern.com/product/ABB-SPORK.html" rel="nofollow">bambu sporks</a> instead of using disposable flatware. I learned about these from <a href="http://web.me.com/wallacejnichols/wallacejnichols/Blog/Entries/2008/9/24_OpEd:_Rise_Above_Plastic.html" rel="nofollow">Wallas J. Nichols</a> in last month's Carnival of the Blue. There is also the <a href="http://www.lovebottle.net/" rel="nofollow">love bottle</a>, which is a reusable glass container, but I have not tried it. To be fair, it is not just Halloween that is plastic madness. It is pretty much any holiday these days. And the answer is the same. Be mindful of your consumption. Be creative in your creations. It is possible to do the holidays in a sustainable fashion. But folks just don’t take the time to think how they could festoon themselves and their abodes with natural materials that are more Earth friendly.

One small change that I am making is getting some bambu sporks instead of using disposable flatware. I learned about these from Wallas J. Nichols in last month’s Carnival of the Blue. There is also the love bottle, which is a reusable glass container, but I have not tried it.

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