plastics

Reducing Single-Use Plastic Food Packaging & Alternatives

Learn how to reduce the use of plastic in your home by banning single-use plastics, using single-use plastic alternatives, and repurposing single-use plastic. This post is from KS Contributing Writer ‘Becca Stallings of The Earthling’s Handbook, with photos by her son Nicholas Efran. I have long been baby stepping my way to reduce plastic use

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Monday Missions Baby Steps Back to Basics

Monday Mission: Pack Reusable Containers for Restaurant Leftovers

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to pack reusable containers to bring to restaurants or cafeterias instead of bringing home Styrofoam take-out containers or other disposables. Get up from your computer right now and do it. That’s right. Stand up, grab a few cheap plastic containers that will survive a few weeks in

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Are Stainless Steel Food Storage Containers Worth the Premium Price? (Life Without Plastic Review)

Fifteen dollars for a bowl with a lid strikes me as expensive. I’m a frugal (cheap!) girl, and I had a hard enough time going from the “4 containers for $2 minus a $1 off coupon” Gladware to the “4 containers for $6-8 and no coupons” Pyrex glass dishes. I have to say I was

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