Hello, world!

[geekinthegreen]

One of my 2012 New Years Resolutions was to make an effort to be Zero Waste, and eliminate disposable products from my life.

As most resolutions go, that lasted about a week. Maybe two. But what I did do was start writing down everything that was disposable that I threw away or recycled (while I know most green bloggers go ahead and just save it all to take pics of later, I didn't think the people I lived with would be appreciative of that). Thanks to the word cloud in the program I used, it became evident super quickly that my main problems were yogurt cups and granola bar wrappers from my work snacks and lunches. Also plastic tea bag wrappers. But I digress.

Anyway, that's why I'm here. Let's talk about this shit, shall we?

Comments

Re: Coming here from the green_living comm :)

[moonreviews]

This "tea bag card" thing is actually quite a common hobby here in the Netherlands! There must be people in the US who also use tea bags for hobby, I think :)
I think that if you have about a small plastic bag full of tea bags, it's already worthwhile for someone who uses tea bags for their hobby.

I buy my leaf tea in a special tea store mostly, but there are also organic-product-oriented drugstores who sell leaf tea. Recently quite a lot of people from the US on my friendslist have been mentioning the following website: http://www.adagio.com/ One because she got a gift card for this store and the other people because they wanted to try out more kinds of leaf tea.

Re: Coming here from the green_living comm :)

[geekinthegreen]

Ahh yes, I've heard of Adagio but never purchased from them. I'm rather picky about my flavors though, and I think I've found a place online that sells the flavor I want so I'm going to order soon! Sadly loose tea just isn't as big of a thing in the U.S. as it is in other parts of the world (my town used to have 2-3 tea stores, now it's just the one -- which is more coffee-oriented with a few tea selections.)