04-10-2012, 09:07 AM
VERY TIMELY - HELCO & KTA are having bag trade offs around the island starting this week: Friday at the Puinako KTA from 2-6 - bring in 3 plastic bags & get a re-useable shopping bag (up to 3 re-useable bags per person/visit) We have used reuse shopping bags for sooo long that I had trouble teasing out 9 plastic bags that were not totally decomposed this morning... but some of my reuse bags are well over a decade old & starting to show the wear & tears of over-use!
We reuse most plastic containers (including yogurt & ice cream containers, chip & cereal bags, cheese & meat packages, clamshell boxes, plastic & paper to-go cups & the like) to pot up plant seedlings that sprout around our yard.... but the plants in this yard usually out-produce our plastic container consumption to the point where we have asked people to trade empty containers for containers with plants....
Downside is the non-seedling times we do have a stock of what most people think of as junk! & our seedlings are in what most people think of as junk.... but I could not bring myself to buy those plastic potting cups & bags when I had them at home in the recycle bin!
We reuse most plastic containers (including yogurt & ice cream containers, chip & cereal bags, cheese & meat packages, clamshell boxes, plastic & paper to-go cups & the like) to pot up plant seedlings that sprout around our yard.... but the plants in this yard usually out-produce our plastic container consumption to the point where we have asked people to trade empty containers for containers with plants....
Downside is the non-seedling times we do have a stock of what most people think of as junk! & our seedlings are in what most people think of as junk.... but I could not bring myself to buy those plastic potting cups & bags when I had them at home in the recycle bin!