Thanks to my friends Jen and Red for theRainbow Grocerygift certificate they gave me for Christmas. Most of the ingredients came from bulk bins at that amazing store. Thanks also toJessTrevwho told me aboutBion
From what I’ve seen, the stock for the bulk bins comes in much bigger bags than we would buy on the shelf. Even if the packaging is plastic, a huge bag of something is going to require much less plastic than multiple small bags. But stay tuned on this because I’m planning a visi...
San Francisco’s stall shows that a city’s biggest obstacle to achieving big goals may be the people it serves. No matter how progressive the people are, how long they’ve had to assimilate the mission, how convenient it is to use the freely provided recycling and composting bins, how st...
Because they have partnered with Recyclebank to reward people who pledge to take back their Ziploc bags to grocery store recycle bins to be recycled. Notice: Ziploc is not actually taking back the bags. They are rewarding people who go to the Ziploc page on the Recyclebank website, enter a ...
Ken O. noticed that all the bin liners are biodegradable, and he’s right. In fact, they are all corn-based BioBags. Lara S. gave an excellent answer, “the plastic bags are unnecessary and shouldn’t be there (compostable or not… it’s a waste).” If these bins were at our ho...
(as well as Berkeley and San Francisco) we have city-wide composting. We can put all of our food scraps (including meat) and food-soiled paper, along with yard waste, into our green bins. It’s then picked up with our garbage and taken to a commercial compost facility where our food...
1) Travel Mug Water bottles are great, but for me, a travel mug is eminently versatile. At the airport, I carry it through security empty and then fill up at a water fountain on the other side. I did hear that TSA has been screening insulated mugs a little more heavily lately, but ...
This post is about toxic adhesives used to apply labels to food packaging and whether or not those chemicals can migrate into our foods. But it's also a convoluted story about the foul odor emanating from the general direction of my dishwasher. Stinky Di
Bowl sells it for $38.75. And buying a lot of perishable foods at Rainbow is not practical for me anyway since I have to cart them across the bay on public transportation. The real reason to make the journey all the way down to Rainbow is for those wondrous, plastic-saving bulk bins....
% ratio with water. She also let me know that people with MCS often have difficulty finding pure baking soda that hasn’t been cross contaminated by products with strong scents. Since baking soda absorbs odors, it could potentially pick up the odor of anything it was shipped or stored near...