Our Next Green Step
My sister lives in San Francisco. They live very green in SF. Thanks to her promptings I'm getting my act in gear and becoming more and more green in my actions. I've got the reusable shopping bags down pat. 99% of the time. Sort of. Okay maybe only 89%. . . but my stockpile of plastic bags has dropped by 90%! Next I made myself produce bags along with all the ones I made for everyone else. . . but I'm still working on getting them out the door. I'll get it! I know I will! In the meantime I want to work on the outrageous number of zipped plastic baggies that are used in our household! There are 40 weeks of school and we use on average between 2 to 8 baggies a day, five days a week. That is somewhere between 400 and 1600 baggies a school year just for lunches! In an attempt to cut out this massive waste I am on the hunt. At the beginning of the school year I purchased these reusable containers for the girls to take a sandwich and snacks for lunch. I have two teenage...