Awhile back, I had written about my love affair with SIGG bottles, which I had asserted were the superior choice when selecting a water bottle. Why? Because they were BPA (Bisphenol A) free, silly!
Well, I’m now disheartened to read that SIGG has admitted that their water-based epoxy liner contains BPA! I feel deceived and betrayed, and don’t know if I can ever purchase another SIGG product again knowing that this company has greedily soaked in profits while claiming to be the environmentally friendly choice. Now I’m left wondering what the best choice is on the market. Readers, any suggestions?
Here’s a nice post from Lifehacker. Happy reading!
One of the first posts I ever did on Things That Make You Go Green was on junk mail. Man, I really hate junk mail. To this day, 95% of my mail is J-U-N-K. I’ve signed up for various services, with the hopes of getting off of random mailing lists, but it still keeps on coming!
I’m a recycler – but for those of you who are interested in a more creative solution, you can try composting your unwanted mail. Shred your junk mail and throw it into your compost bin – just make sure not to use the slick, coated paper that is sometimes found in brochures, as this makes the paper water-resistant and slower to decompose.
The paper from your junk mail is high in carbon and will make for great composting materials, provided you mix in high-nitrogen wastes with it. High-nitrogen waste items include fresh grass clippings and kitchen waste.
I’m a pretty compulsive paper shredder-er, so I’m going to try this. Are any of you already doing this today?
A recent NY Times article points out that as far as major cities go, Houston is behind the pack when it comes to recycling. In fact, it’s the worst recycler among the United States’ 30 largest cities, recycling about 2.6% of its total waste compared to other cities like San Francisco, which recycles about 69%.
The city’s sprawling, no-zoning layout makes collection expensive, and there is little public support for the kind of effort it takes to sort glass, paper and plastics. And there appears to be even less for placing fees on excess trash.
To me, it is so amazing that there isn’t more pressure from the State of Texas to do more to encourage recycling. Clearly they need to start building more of an incentive-based solution to help change mindsets and behavior.
I love magazines. In fact, JB and I often go to the local Barnes and Noble just to spend some quality time browsing the newsstand. I mean, where else would I have been able to find Reminisce Magazine?But before magazines become Car and Driver or Vogue, they are trees.  And so we’ve been looking for ways to get a magazine fix without physical magazines. One solution might be Zinio.com, which is building a digital newsstand. They scan whole magazines and put them online, ads and all. (for a fee)I’ve tried it, and it works surprisingly well. Because they scan the whole magazine, its a much more authentic experience than visiting the magazine websites. The scans are extremely high quality, and they have links from the table of contents, so you can jump around. They even have a iPhone version!If you want to check it out, I posted a free link to a free issue of Dwell.
