Comments on: Enjoying a plastic-free meal http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20080402/enjoying-a-plastic-free-meal/ Hints, tips and discussions on reducing your impact on the environment. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:35:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Crafty Green Poet http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20080402/enjoying-a-plastic-free-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 Crafty Green Poet Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:54:53 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20080402/enjoying-a-plastic-free-meal/#comment-1381 It can be so difficult. Here its not difficult to find vegetables sold loose and with paper bags at the side should you need a bag to put your purchases in. However even in our wholefood shops, anything even remotely processed is sold in plastic. It certainly is an interesting exercise to try and avoid as much plastic as possible! It can be so difficult. Here its not difficult to find vegetables sold loose and with paper bags at the side should you need a bag to put your purchases in. However even in our wholefood shops, anything even remotely processed is sold in plastic. It certainly is an interesting exercise to try and avoid as much plastic as possible!

]]> By: Mark http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20080402/enjoying-a-plastic-free-meal/comment-page-1/#comment-1379 Mark Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:43:23 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20080402/enjoying-a-plastic-free-meal/#comment-1379 Dear Low Impact: Nice work with Low Impact. Given the current state of the environment, Mother Earth needs all the help she can get! With that in mind, in honor of Earth Day this Tuesday, Swaptree.com, the website where you can trade the books, DVDs, CDs, and video games you have, for the ones you want, for free, will be donating $1 dollar for every trade made on Earth Day to The Sierra Club. So if getting a free book, DVD, video game or CD was not enough, now by signing up and doing a trade, you will also be donating to America’s oldest and largest environmental organization on Swaptree’s dime! One of the main reasons we started Swaptree was to promote the idea that we should all recycle more and throw away less. After all do we really need 20 million copies of each of the Harry Potter books? Can’t we just trade and share a few hundred thousand? In recent studies, it was estimated that every book contributes 8.85 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, while every CD or DVD contributes 2.2 pounds. Furthermore, 100,000 pounds of CDs and DVDs (and their nasty chemicals) are deposited in US landfills every month, while the book industry chops down in excess of 19 million trees yearly. Pretty frightening numbers I am sure you’ll agree. Obviously reducing the consumption of these items would have a positive impact on the environment. On Swaptree you simply list the items that you have to trade and the items that you want and Swaptree’s two and three-way trade algorithms instantly shows you all of the items you can receive in trade. Swaptree even simplifies the mailing process, by providing you with a perfect postage label that can be printed right from your computer, so you never have to go to the post office. Anyways, I encourage you to take a look at Swaptree, and if you like what you see, spread the word about our Earth Day promotion to your readers, friends and family. You’ll be helping the earth in more ways than one. Below is a link to a two minute video that shows you what Swaptree is all about. http://www.swaptree.com/video/demomovie.html For more information about The Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org Thank you for your time, and let me know if you have any questions or would like to learn more. And keep up the good work with Low Impact. Best Regards, Mark Hexamer Dear Low Impact:

Nice work with Low Impact. Given the current state of the environment, Mother Earth needs all the help she can get!

With that in mind, in honor of Earth Day this Tuesday, Swaptree.com, the website where you can trade the books, DVDs, CDs, and video games you have, for the ones you want, for free, will be donating $1 dollar for every trade made on Earth Day to The Sierra Club.

So if getting a free book, DVD, video game or CD was not enough, now by signing up and doing a trade, you will also be donating to America’s oldest and largest environmental organization on Swaptree’s dime!

One of the main reasons we started Swaptree was to promote the idea that we should all recycle more and throw away less. After all do we really need 20 million copies of each of the Harry Potter books? Can’t we just trade and share a few hundred thousand?

In recent studies, it was estimated that every book contributes 8.85 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, while every CD or DVD contributes 2.2 pounds. Furthermore, 100,000 pounds of CDs and DVDs (and their nasty chemicals) are deposited in US landfills every month, while the book industry chops down in excess of 19 million trees yearly. Pretty frightening numbers I am sure you’ll agree. Obviously reducing the consumption of these items would have a positive impact on the environment.

On Swaptree you simply list the items that you have to trade and the items that you want and Swaptree’s two and three-way trade algorithms instantly shows you all of the items you can receive in trade. Swaptree even simplifies the mailing process, by providing you with a perfect postage label that can be printed right from your computer, so you never have to go to the post office.

Anyways, I encourage you to take a look at Swaptree, and if you like what you see, spread the word about our Earth Day promotion to your readers, friends and family. You’ll be helping the earth in more ways than one.

Below is a link to a two minute video that shows you what Swaptree is all about.

http://www.swaptree.com/video/demomovie.html

For more information about The Sierra Club:

http://www.sierraclub.org

Thank you for your time, and let me know if you have any questions or would like to learn more. And keep up the good work with Low Impact.

Best Regards,

Mark Hexamer

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