In the News: Are you Eating Plastic for Dinner?
How you Store your Food Impacts your Health Phasing out the most toxic substances that come into contact with our food is long overdue. Until then, it’s more important than ever to use your own safe containers, cups, straws, bags and utensils. According to The Guardian, “Many of those seemingly safe containers may have hazardous chemicals…Read the full article
5 Reasons our 1% for the Planet Membership is Good for our Company and the Planet
Why we love our 1% for the Planet membership Every Earth Month we have a renewed sense of commitment for our mission to reduce single-use packaging. We also confirm that our goals continue to align with our actions. This all became easier for us in 2015 when we made our giving more concrete and transparent…Read the full article
Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids + Trail Mix Energy Bites
Easy energy bites recipe and snack tips for kids Coming up with healthy snack ideas for kids can be a challenge, so we’re sharing a favorite new video with snack tips that are sure to leave your kids full and happy. We’re grateful to have many health and wellness experts using our products and advocating for…Read the full article
Straws are the Gateway Plastic: These Three Products Might be Next
Plastic Straw Bans Take the Lead. What’s Next? The ubiquitous and often unnecessary plastic straw has been seen as a symbol and a gateway plastic—helping to jumpstart changing behavior to reduce other single-use items. As awareness grows about plastic straws, staggering facts and images about plastic pollution hit front-page news (see the CBS 60 Minutes special),…Read the full article
Plastic Pollution in the News and Why We Should Care
The reuse revolution is trending. Here’s what’s new and how it affects us: Bans on wasteful food storage and drinkware are trending up at a fast pace across the country as news stories about plastic pollution hit mainstream. Here’s the latest: Our Earth is swimming in plastic | CBS News: 60 Minutes Eight million tons…Read the full article
Zero-Waste Holiday Gift Ideas for Everyone on your List
Meaningful gifts for a zero-waste holiday If you’re reading this you probably care deeply about the environment and make thoughtful decisions every day that align with these values. Well done! It’s easy to pass on these values by choosing gifts for family and friends that tread lightly on the planet. Reusable Bowl Covers Ditch plastic wrap…Read the full article
Food Storage Safety Tips for the Holidays
Follow these 5 easy steps for safe food storage We all know it’s best to store perishable foods in the refrigerator without letting them sit too long on the table, but that gets tricky during the holidays when dinner lasts longer and guests stay later. To help, we’ve come up with five important food storage…Read the full article
Is Toxic Food Packaging Making Us Sick?
One more reason to ditch disposables If you need another reason to avoid wasteful plastic baggies, takeout containers and packaged food, here it is: The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging families to limit their use of certain food containers to lower children’s exposures to chemicals in food packaging. Limiting toxic food packaging is pretty…Read the full article
Responsible Goods for Back to School: The Best Picks and Tips
Gearing up to go back to school can be stressful if you’re trying to tread lightly on the planet. Conventional school supplies, disposable sandwich baggies and packaged food wrappers usually head straight to landfill and stay there forever, breaking down into small pieces that pollute the environment. Cheap, single-use plastic products for young students also…Read the full article
Our On-the-Go Lifestyle and The Plastics BAN List 2.0
The Plastics BAN List 2.0 In the first Plastics BAN List, plastic pollution along the California coast was analyzed. In the newest analysis, The Plastics BAN List 2.0, data from the entire United States is used. It’s an impressive 34-page study looking at the 20 most polluting products, calling out the worst-offending brands responsible for…Read the full article