Sentences with phrase «paper bag waste»

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Somehow as a society we've not thought collectively about where all this waste is going or what the consequences are, though paper bags and glass milk bottles being collected and re-used are still within living memory.

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.

We try to cut down the amount of waste we produce — we've eliminated most of our paper towel use (it takes us a couple months to go through one roll now), and we wash and reuse resealable plastic bags.

Now packing a lunch box everyday can mean a lot of waste, paper bags, napkins, plastic bags, wrappers, forks, water bags, you name it, straws and more.

My son started Kindergarten last year and I really didn't want to send so much waste with him every day, like zip top bags and paper lunch bags.

To minimize paper waste one hostess could hold the bag and another hostess could track the responses on a single sheet of paper in lieu of each guest having their own sheet of paper.

A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.

«A fee on single - use paper and plastic disposable bags is the right way to reduce plastic bag waste in New York City,» he maintained.

Paper author, Professor Margaret Frame, Cancer Research UK scientist at the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, said: «We've shown that cancer cells can adapt to the problems caused by stress, by hijacking normal cell waste disposal to «bag up and bin'toxic proteins.

Why waste all that hard work and the substantial investment you've made by putting it into what amounts to a brown paper bag?

As noted on his website, Cannella discovered that plastic bags take thousands of years to break down, are the least recycled material and comprise the fourth highest generated waste in the U.S. (the top three are paper, yard trimmings and food scraps).

Most Swedish grocery stores charge you for plastic or paper bags in an effort to keep waste low and encourage recycling so hang on to it while in Stockholm.

For his recent solo show earlier this year at Pippy Houldsworth, Japanese artist Yuken Teruya (previously) transformed the waste products of consumerism — luxury gift bags — into cut paper trees that rise like fragile silhouettes from inside each bag.

This paper analyses the individual taxes as well as the combination of all these taxes and duties related to environmental concerns, including taxes on heating, transport fuels, electricity, water, waste, plastic bags, registration of cars, annual car use, pesticides, etc..

The system being piloted includes the use of water - resistant paper bags for compost recovery, which are anticipated to facilitate greater participation while also ensuring that composters in the region can process the waste easily into high - value soil products.

Do not dump your cigarette waste directly into the shipping box and do not use paper bags or envelopes to collect your waste.

Do not dump your cigarette waste directly into the shipping box and do not use paper bags to collect your waste.

We've fallen into the trap of paper towels, wet wipes, plastic bags, and so many other wasteful single - use items that have simple low - waste alternatives.

Send your kids off to school in style with the lunch boxes, silverware, napkins, and containers that will make them the most popular kid in the cafeteria — and, while you're at it, cut back on the waste inherent in disposable paper bags and plastic snack

For the crock as a waste paper can in an office, just stash a smaller metal or plastic can inside, lined with a plastic bag.