30 reusable items vs. 30 disposable items
January 4, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
You have hundreds of choices when it comes to reusable products vs. disposable products. Here are 30 ideas. Even if you just choose 5 or 10, and use them all year, it’ll make a huge difference for the planet.
Snack baggies from Plum Creek Mercantile
- Cloth snack bags over plastic baggies.
- Cloth shopping bags over paper or plastic.
- Cloth handkerchiefs over tissues.
- Reusable coffee filters over paper.
- Cloth shower curtains over plastic.
- Reusable lunch sack over paper.
- Real dishes over disposable.
- Refillable water bottles over plastic.
- Rain water for car washing and gardens over new tap water.
- Cloth napkins over paper.
- The amazing reusable mom product – Breastfeeding over plastic bottles.
- Refillable ink cartridges over new.
- Cloth produce bags over plastic.
- Food containers over foil, plastic wrap, or wax paper.
- Plantable or homemade paper over new.
- Wash cloths over baby wipes.
- Reusable ice pop molds over toss away boxes, wrappers, and sticks.
- Recyclable toothbrushes over toss away toothbrushes.
- Non-disposable female products over disposable.
- Silicone Baking Cups over paper muffin cups.
- Rechargeable batteries over toss away.
- Homemade cleaners in refillable bottles vs new plastic bottles all year long.
- Old cleaning cloths over paper towels and sponges.
- Library books over buying new.
- Refillable pens over non-refillable.
- Reusable razors – or electric over plastic.
- Rented, traded, or thrift store toys over new.
- Refillable liquid hand soap pumps over plastic bottled soap.
- Old school mop heads over sponge-like mop heads.
- Cloth diapers over plastic.
Choose one, choose five, or choose all of the above over disposables to make a big impact.
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this is a great help with my school project !
We have purchased reusable snack bags from http://www.crafttwins.etys.com and my kids just love them. They came in a large variety of fabrics for all ages. They are well made to last a long time so you can forget about purchasing plastic sandwich bags.
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