Thursday, September 27, 2007

Who uses styrofoam anymore?

In the midst of the rebirth of environmental consciousness, in the progressive San Francisco Bay Area, MY KIDS' SCHOOLS use styrofoam plates at their family picnics.

That's about 1000 styrofoam plates that will never ever become fertilizer. Actually, make that 996 -- because I convinced 3 out of 4 kids (and myself) to take reusable plates from home. As Blue Gal says, "Be the change, baby."

6 comments:

Chase March said...

I recently attended a similar picnic and noticed the same thing. Styrofoam cups for coffee. I saw two people who had brought their own mugs. I don’t drink coffee so I didn’t contribute to this waste of materials and neither did those two conscientious people.

It’s a little thing but I don’t think there are any little things. Every little thing adds to every other little thing and becomes a big thing. “Be The Change,” I totally agree

Karen said...

Thanks, CM! You inspired my next post.

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i've been trying to do my best. every little thing helps. that's been in my heart for ages.

great post.

Tracey said...

Karen---I had not realized that the plates were styrofoam!! Were these provided by Leutickans or by the PTA?

Another solution---eat at home, got to the picnic and buy and icecream.....
Tracey

Tracey said...

In our storeroom at work, we have several sleeves of styrofoam bought by the previous librarian.....what can/should we do with them?

-blessed holy socks, the non-perishable-zealot said...

Excellent, girl! You rock!! You kick-ass! See? If we could just git along -Rod King Though I'm voting Republican cuzza the BOs abortion, we must git past the hardcore/only Demo/Rep mindset -IF- we're to grow-up. I don't like this slaughter in Iran, either... yet, what is our puppet prez doing? Slaughtering millions of babies, too, and what do we do in the USA? Use birth control. Precisely why there'll be a Warning from God Almighty. Hey, girly! DON'T BITCH AT ME!! I'm only the prophet. _thewarningsecondcoming.com_