Getting smart and kicking the single-use disposable habit.
The most disturbing thing about your coffee: that you’re paying 3-5 times more than you need to. Single Serve Coffee, which utilize the now-famous K-Cups (K for Kardashian?), is the fastest growing sector of the coffee economy.
NPR reported this morning from an interview with Bill Chappel, an analyst at SunTrust Robertson Humphrey.
The biggest problem with bottled water is the plastic. The biggest problem with non-bottled water is the tap—that is, the lack of taps. It’s hard to advocate for more reusable water consumption without water to actually put in those bottles.
In fact, banning the plastic bottle can be more of a challenge than banning the bag. The replacement product for a plastic bag is a reusable bag. Easy enough. But replacing plastic water bottles requires two components: a reusable water bottle and access to water. Less easy.
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How much do the actions of any one of these people matter? [Photo Credit: Tiago Fiorez]
What does one single use disposable matter? Every day, billions of people buy, sell, and use trillions (or even gazillions) of consumer items. How can any one person’s disposable usage actually matter? How can one plastic milk jug or paper towel ever really matter?
New York City's Department of Sanitation has been together a neato tool to show you why it matters. You plug in your consumption habits, and it spits out what the total number would be if everyone in your borough or the whole city went through single use disposables like you do.
We’ve written before about how easy it is to make your kids sick by letting them play around with single use disposables like they’re as safe as lead paint chips or something.
Now there’s even more definitive proof that disposable items are bad for us. The evidence against BPA (bisphenol-A) a common additive to plastic that thickens it while allowing it to remain flexible, has been mounting for years. As far as chemicals go, BPA is your regular utility player, appearing in everything from plastic water bottles to water coolers jugs, sippy cups to baby bottles.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 02:59PM | Throwaway Nation | 1 Comment | Share Article | Email Article 
Towns and countries working to reduce plastic bag consumption. Interactive version available at http://bagitmovie.com/bagittown.html.
I’d love to thank our reader, NJResident, for commenting on the trailer we posted for the film Bag It and asking some questions about how one actually goes about banning the bag. At Throwaway Nation, we’re huge advocates of never seeing another single use plastic bag ever again. And we’re even huger advocates of showing people how they can make that happen in their community.
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As a follow up to yesterday's post about Unprocessed October, I thought I'd share this photo of a trash can I passed on my way to the train station in Philadelphia yesterday.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 01:52PM | Throwaway Nation | 2 Comments | Share Article | Email Article Food, Litter, Processed Food, Trash Cans in Dumb Things We Do 
We're not in the army now.
No, it's not the stress of watching your team fail to hit in the post season (come on, Phils!) or the increased hiking activity to look at fall foliage and walks through organic pumpkin farms. It's committing to kick single use disposables out of our kitchens.
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 02:54PM | Throwaway Nation | Comments Off | Share Article | Email Article