Sentences with phrase «as reusable shopping bags»

Men resist many of the sustainable lifestyle practices that women have embraced, such as reusable shopping bags, smaller cars, and vegetarianism.

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Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

As someone who admittedly hates carrying around her laptop in a reusable shopping bag, and who occasionally forgets her house keys on her dresser, I couldn't agree more.

We recycle, use reusable bags and shop local as much as we can.

Why it's hot: There's something for everybody, from a 100 percent recycled plastic tea set by Green Toys to eco-friendly cleaning products to whimsical Envirosax reusable shopping bags to a colorful selection of organic clothes (such as WonderToast and Little Lark), including a blue and orange dress made from sweatshop - free organic cotton ($ 30) by Two Owls.

I store my reusable shopping bags, produce bags as well as empty strawberry baskets and egg cartons in a desk drawer or on my car's passenger seat to ensure I've got them handy when I visit the farmers» market.

The whole point here is to get people to shop with reusable bags — as they did for centuries before the fairly recent advent of disposable ones.

Sailor Stripe Reusable Market Tote — It's super cute and can be used as a beach bag, grocery bag or shopping tote.

Located in the reception area, we have diving accessories, branded reusable water bottles and shopping bags as well as hammocks, T shirts, etc..

Of course this is not going to single handedly solve the worlds plastic bag problem, nor are we saying it is totally sustainable jewelery, (gold is also used), but this jewellery does give rise to alternative and thoughtful uses for discarded plastics.The recent backlash against plastic shopping bags in Australia has been written about here before, there are a few alternatives that have been trialled such as the potato starch bag, reusable woven bags and banning plastic bags altogether, but using plastic bags persists, which leaves the dilemma of what to do with them.

All we can do is continue to chip away at it on an individual and community level, realizing that every time we shop with reusable jars and bags, there's a chance it will inspire a witness to do so as well.

We still talk about green lifestyle choices like recycling, making DIY cleaners or riding a bike - and these things are all still worth doing as a way to lessen the impact of our current system - but for the large - scale, world changing shifts we know are needed to adapt to a changing climate, it's going to take much more than reusable shopping bags.

We also use the reusable bags, got an extra recycle bin, buy furniture exclusively from local resale and antique shops and paint or recover to suit our needs, use all green cleaning products, and we limit the amount of conventional toys that we bring into our house (opting instead for repurposed household items that entertain just as well).

Hmm... to be both green and frugal, I do a lot... reusable shopping bags, Sigg bottles for the whole family, as little packaged food as possible, cutting up old towels and doing away with paper (not quite there yet, but getting close!)