Stainless lasts a long time and through multiple children so they are economical as well as practical, even if the per cup price is a bit more that what you can
buy in the plastic cup section at Walmart.
Not exact matches
Maybe it's making for «no straw»
in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie
in your own
cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins,
buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of
buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual
cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.
After tiring of a single -
cup reusable coffee filter that put hot water into contact with
plastic, I searched high and low for a coffee brewing set that met two requirements: no
plastic in contact with boiling water and no paper filters to
buy and then toss.
When
buying clothes look for fabrics that don't contain polyester and throw out all the old
plastic cups in your cabinet.
Meantime, if you want to keep using
plastic bottles or «sippy»
cups, the new «Baby 411» advises limiting the number of times you boil those bottles or put them
in a dishwasher, skipping the «heated dry» dishwashing cycle and
buying new bottles every time you have a new baby.
Buy «
Plastic Water Filtration» products like Brondell ® H2O + Circle Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System
in Slate, Brondell ® H2O + 3 - Pack Circle Replacement Filter, Brondell ® H2O + Circle RO Membrane Replacement Filter, Brita ® SOHO 5 -
Cup Water Filtration Pitcher
in White, KitchenAid ® 12 -
Cup Glass Carafe Coffee Maker
in Black
Buy «Bathtub Rails» products like Drive Medical Parallel Bathtub Grab Bar Safety Rail, Drive Medical Suction
Cup Handle Grab Bar
in White, Drive Medical
Plastic 12 - Inch High Bath Shower Tub Grab Rail
Any good TreeHugger would avoid
buying them
in styrofoam or
plastic cups because of the waste, but a lot of people do for the convenience.