Living Plastic Free

My "Fake plastic fish" friend, AKA Beth Terry wrote a book. About Plastic Free living. (three guesses on the topic, and the first two are wrong). And while I am big believer in Re-Using and Reduction, I would gladly give it up for a plastic free world. Besides it is too hard to find re-uses for all that plastic junk! Look for it here or at Amazon (yes it is available for Kindle)

Ways to Recycle Plastic Pizza Savers

Pizza Savers- Those little plastic things to protect the pizza from getting squashed by the box lid. In the olden days many pizzerias solved this by making their own- out of left over pizza dough, then baking it to put it the middle of the box. But modern times apparently seemed to call for something new made of plastic instead of something sustainable, that was easily eaten (if not argued over by your brother and sisters as to who would get this special treat!).  The best way to end the confusion about what to do with the leftover Pizza Protector is to 1- buy pizaza from a pizzeria that doesn't use them or 2- find a way to reuse them. I usually try 1, but every so often forget to mention not to add the protector to my pizza, so I looked up on the internet and found this blog topic by Sew Many Ways blog. She has some great ideas on reusing these little pieces of plastic pizza protectors... from using them to keep your bobbin's and thread organized (if your sew) to using them for drying items you painted to using them to keep your kindle/or smart phone in place


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Photo by Sew Many Ways blog

The Majestic Plastic Bag

A tongue in cheek "Mockumentary", this one is for my friend Beth Terry AKA Fake plastic Fish AKA
My Plastic Free Life, Narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, this "mockumentary" video, hammers home the stark reality of California's plastic bag pollution situation.

BLUE DAY

Here it is a sunny day and I am depressed- Going to cal the vet's office and arrange for Tuffy to be put down. HE suffered all weekend- would hardly eat, just slept on the his pillow on the couch most all weekend. Poor little guy! Have gotten nothing done all week, except for canceling my newspaper since the carrier doesn't think he needs to put the paper on the front porch, with no plastic wrapper, and the Seattle Times assured me this will happen. The funny part is he just throws it in the driveway, in a puddle, making the wrapper useless. Service is no longer number1 at the Seattle Times. So subscribers like me won't put up with it! Besides... I can read the paper online and later if they want people to subscribe, I will do it that way. One less plastic bag a day!