Comments on: Just Say ‘No’ To To-Go

By: Linda Probstfeld

Linda Probstfeld — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:13:00 +0000

We need public advertising to make taking your own containers for leftover to the restaurant okay. My husband and I both keep clean plastic containers in our cars. When we go into a restaurant, we take them in with us. Most of our friends are embarrassed when we do this. We now carry them in a tote bag so it isn’t obvious what we have with us. If it is socially okay or expected, then more people would do it. Let’s make it socially responsible to use your own take-home container. Advertising is the way to do this.

Since all the info has been out about plastic bottles, I see 60% fewer throw-away bottles. How can I tell it’s 60%? We belong to a gym and those exercising put their bottles on a ledge right next to the aisle. When we walk past the ledge we can see the bottles lined up. It used to be all disposable plastic. Now six out of 10 are reusable bottles. 60%. Please
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By: To-Go Green : Cypress Point

To-Go Green : Cypress Point — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:29:14 +0000

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By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:34:01 +0000

Hello Fellow Recyclers! I am a single mother, college student and freelance graphic designer! Yes I have many plates to spin! I am working on a children’s book to teach kids about recycling!! If there are any foundations that offer grants or loans I would love to meet! Thanks!

By: Mercy

Mercy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:47:11 +0000

These are great tips! Nowadays lot of reusable container are available in the market with low cost ,instead visitors taking the container to the restaurant ,the restaurant itself can supply the container as a compliment for every dinning. This can even be a business tactic for the growth of business.Hope this idea works out well ?!

By: RogueTide

RogueTide — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:55:58 +0000

Flatearth, initially I was dumbfounded that anyone could believe something so absurd as to believe that we are doing nothing to harm Earth. So I thought on what you wrote for awhile. The thing is you may be correct, but only in the grandest extreme. Sure a million years from now the human race could be gone, wiped out by one of the amazing disasters you speak of, and after all that time the planet healed and showing no sign of human disturbance. However, I believe people are far more concerned about keeping the planet safe and inhabitable by humans. Sure, millions of years from now, after we wipe ourselves out, Earth will probably recover. I and many others are worried about what happens 50 years years from now when the population is still growing, we are still compiling trash and using resources as if there is no consequence, and CO2 levels are so high in our atmosphere that we wipe out half the species on this beautiful planet. Sure nature has created many mass extinctions but the human race will become the first organism to actually cause a mass extinction of its fellow living inhabitants.

By: Flatearth

Flatearth — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:50:08 +0000

When I was a child, I believed all these things, and thought people were evil and destroying the planet. Then I grew up, learned about asteroid impacts, mega-tsunami’s, and super volcanoes (one sits fuming beneath Yellowstone National Park), and I realized how pathetically insignificant we are.

We can no more harm the Earth, or change the climate than we could shift its orbit. We can damage local environments, which prove remarkably resilient, but we’re not a threat to the planet, and it’s not in trouble. The planet has survived impacts with asteroids that wiped out millions of species, dozens of super volcano eruptions capable of covering North America in three feet of ash, and mega-tsunamis that have driven walls of water hundreds of feet high, and hundreds of miles long twenty miles inland…

Do you really think refusing to drink your pop out of a straw matters to the Earth’s survivability?

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:07:55 +0000

Bring your own containers for leftovers! Tupperware makes a great line called Flat Outs… they are expandable containers the close down to about an inch thick. My parents have several sets that they bring on their frequent dining out excursions and always pack their leftovers in their own containers. Not only are they staying away from disposables, but they don’t end up with spilled food in the car or dried out food in the fridge!

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:06:15 +0000

These are great tips! One thing that kills me is when I see people using disposable salad boxes. Especially at whole foods… or another eco-friendly location. I work for Aladdin and we make this reusable salad set that lets people get salad to go but be more sustainable.

Check it out: http://www.aladdin-pmi.com/shop/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-00338-000

By: Daysi

Daysi — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:19:35 +0000

I am a realtor, having sell a house since six month ago. the marke is getting worse. My brotherr, who is in the construction fild got umemployee, so sinced we are not having a income, we would love to start a recycle businees. Would you please send me information that would help us finish building our business?
Thanks,

Daysi Briones
IQBriones C. Services
iqbriones@verizon.net