Sentences with phrase «than disposable plastic»

Make them feel special with a bar cart set - up complete with pretty ice buckets and attractive melamine glassware, rather than disposable plastic.

They are stronger than disposable plastic storage bags, so they're less likely to break or leak.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, too many holy communions are more expressions of holy hygiene (with their disposable, individual, antiseptic plastic cups) and sanctified sobriety (with their lock - step directions from officious ushers and nervous ministers) than of the worship of God.

The children also take trash - free lunches to school; we don't use any disposable paper or plastic products in our home (other than toilet paper).

On Environment Canada's website, they claim that «effluents from the disposable diaper manufacturing process (plastic, pulp, and bleached paper) are more damaging than the cotton and hemp growing and manufacturing process used for cloth diapers.»

In the first place, disposables are less than 10 percent plastic.

The result is an annual US consumption of 80,000 pounds of plastic, 200,000 trees, and more than 18 billion disposable diapers in our landfills.

While old - fashioned plastic disposables are a definite no - no, it turns out that washing, bleaching and drying cloth diapers several times may actually be more harmful to the environment than swaddling your baby's booty in modern, biodegradable, chlorine - free disposables.

The thing that's going to stop the airflow to some extent is the polyurethane laminate, but that stops it even less so than the disposable diaper plastic.

@ Rich: It takes more water to produce a disposable diaper than it takes to wash a diaper (people have no idea how much water is used in pulp production and plastics manufacturing!

As a result, more than 18 billion disposable diapers end up in our landfills every year - equalling 80,000 pounds of plastic tossed and 200,000 trees cut down a year.

Rather than hit customers who use plastic and other disposable bags with the 5 - cent fee under the city law, a new bill would actually pay them to use reusable bags.

One solution is to treat plastic as a reusable material rather than as a disposable commodity that's quickly discarded.

There are now options for chlorine and plastic - free biodegradable diapers and they aren't much more expensive than name - brand disposable diapers.

More than 8 million tons of plastic trash end up in the ocean every year, including millions of disposable plastic bags.

The idea of cutting out disposable bags at a place like Whole Foods seems like it'd go together like peanut butter and jelly — though bringing your own bag has been a hot TreeHugging tip for awhile now, as many of us can attest, knowing to do it and remembering to actually bring the bag along are two (maddeningly) different things — the retailer estimates that they give out around 150 million plastic bags each year, so more than a few of us have been forgetting.

That's a lot of big blue bags, and even more plastic bags kept out of landfills.According to their press release, «Since the «bag the plastic bag» program began in March 2007, IKEA has donated more than $ 300,000 from their disposable plastic bag sales to American Forests.

Since the «bag the plastic bag» program began in March 2007, IKEA has donated more than $ 300,000 from their disposable plastic bag sales to American Forests.