Earth and Body Friendly

Avoiding plastic in unlikely places
I don’t use much plastic in my house. I tend not to buy it and I try to avoid it where possible. For instance, a roll of cling wrap will last me several years. One place which had never really occured to me to avoid plastic, though, is my toothbrush. Perhaps [...]

Excess packaging is something that bothers me. (Especially so after readingGarbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte.) Some products have more packaging than product. Not all products are so encumbered with packaging, yet some we might have to buy a lot of in a lifetime and there doesn’t seem to be [...]