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Is Plastic Food Storage as bad as Cigarettes?

You don’t need to be a doctor to know smoking causes cancer. But that wasn’t always the case. For years, smoking cigarettes was considered cool and maybe even, ah, healthy for new moms.  When res...

100 Million Plastic Utensils Are Used in America Every Day... REALLY?

Fake News, Click Bait or Factual Scientific Data?   100 Million Plastic Utensils... Really? from Steve Reble on Vimeo. We see reference to our disposable plastic culture every day, so much so, th...

10 Ways To Reduce Your Plastic Waste

There it is again. Every. Single. Time. I chuck a piece of plastic into the bin and then I feel "the guilt" (because I know that stuff isn't going to decompose). Are ya with me? You know it's bad, ...

The Making of Change, One Step at a Time

Okay, so I've long known that plastic has some heinous effects on the environment, but when I learned that estrogen mimicking compounds are in most plastics, plastic and I were no longer friends. I...

Is Plastic the Next Cigarette?

Should we have done a background check on plastic before it became a part of our family? Plastic has loitered in our kitchen for decades without us even getting to know its last name, shoe size, o...

How Does an Etee Wrap Keep Food Fresh?

I used to think plastic was the only way to keep food fresh because it kept an airtight seal over perishables, but if you dig a little deeper you'll see there's more to perishability and preservati...

What Is the True Cost of Christmas?

A few days back - scrolling through our YouTube comments - I came across a witty one from Blitz Fire (actual name) who said: "Problem is, you're trying to make way too much money off it."   My r...

What is the Most Sustainable Fabric?

We want sustainability!   But why is it that sustainable so often means ultra hippy looking, bland or way beyond affordable?   We want lively! We need long-lasting! Surely that can also mean sus...

How Long Does it Really Take Plastic to Decompose?

How long Does it really take plastic to decompose?! For 20 years I have avoided this question because I knew the answer would destroy my favourite post kayaking tradition - eating 100lbs of hand...