Reduce, Reuse, Resolution
This year’s resolution: no more one-use disposable plastic water bottles. They make me feel wasteful and sometimes even guilty. Everyone knows they’re bad for the enviro but hello, revelation: water should not cost more than gasoline.
Last year’s resolution was to start carrying my own bags to the store. Most times I remember to tote them along (tote! bags! ha!). Mostly I use canvas bags from conferences — including South By Southwest 2003, which totally impressed a bag guy at Whole Paycheck.
No one’s mentioned the Hinano beer lady sticker on my Nalgene bottle but I smile when I see it. Some butt-insky told me that I should switch to one of those fancy-looking aluminum bottles (sometimes, San Francisco, I want to kick your ass). Apparently the Lexan plastic might maybe break down and be toxic and kill us all. Buying another bottle is against the idea of the reusable water vessel so as long as the seal’s good I’ll keep it old school.
girl - i am so feeling you on this. i am in the same boat - bags I have covered. i’m even proud of myself that i take them clothes and shoe shopping (not the canvas totes though. that would just be…wrong. i take like old victoria’s secret bags and stuff) i feel so calm when i am able to say, No Bag Please.
But I have been seriously sleeping on the water bottle situation. I told myself that 2000-great was the year to cut that shit out! I am now the proud owner of a teal plastic water bottle which i will re-use and re-use and re-use….. Oh Happy Day (Sing it Edwin Hawkins singers)
hey, we carry my decade worth of sxsw bags for our shopping needs.
I hear putting them in the dishwasher leads to the chemical break down of the Nalgene plastic.
Now that my four-year-old Nalgene is starting to leak I plan to replace it with one of the Sigg bottles.