It's not what you think. We haven't migrated to the other side. The PLASTIC we're offering up won't leach into your food, but it will leach into your mind and make you look twice at the plastic in your life.
You may have noticed on our website that on Earth Day we featured a recently released book about plastic - called 'PLASTIC: A Toxic Love Story' - by journalist Susan Freinkel. Feel free to check out our review of this important book here. We mentioned that we had contributed some product to a promotional Earth Day Plastic-free Prize Pack that the publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), were raffling off as part of the book launch.
Weeellll, it seems the Prize Pack sweepstakes were only open to United States residents, which we did not initially realize, but which we quickly found out from some very unhappy Canadian followers. We asked HMH if they would be willing to provide a copy of the book for us to raffle off. They immediately agreed, and here we are.
So it's raffle time again, and this time the giveaway is open to anyone in North America. The prize pack includes a copy of the book PLASTIC: A Toxic Love Story, a Square Airtight Glass Container with a Stainless Steel Lid, a Round Airtight Stainless Steel Food Container, and smiles from Chantal and me - actually those are available to all :) :)
To enter, all you have to do is to tell us about an important item in your everyday life that you are unable to find in a plastic-free format. But be creative -- low-hanging fruit like "water bottle" and "coffee mug" are weak -- you can find those almost anywhere now. Think hard about something that you may have spent time looking for but just can't find in a non-plastic medium. Let us know by posting a comment below, and/or posting a comment in this item on the Life Without Plastic facebook page and indicating that you "Like" the page, or sending us an e-mail at info [at] lifewithoutplastic [dot] com.
The contest will be open for two weeks, so through Friday, May 20th. A winner will be chosen once the contest closes. Good luck!
One last thing - if you are interested in buying the book, we suggest purchasing it through this link, which will help support the Plastic Free Times.
Jay Sinha, Co-Owner
LifeWithoutPlastic.com
CONGRATULATIONS TO TARA, WHOSE FACEBOOK ENTRY IS THE WINNER! THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING. SO MANY EXCELLENT SUGGESTIONS WE HAVE TAKEN NOTE OF - BECAUSE WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW ALTERNATIVES TO PLASTIC.
Soymilk. Well, soymilk vessels. I stopped buying it in the shelf-stable tetra-pak nightmare form and started buying the refrigerated kind in regular waxed cartons...with the plastic cap. I used to cut these out and throw them away and recycle the carton. Now I live where waxed cartons can't be recycled. It used to make me crazy--why did soymilk have a plastic twist off cap but cowmilk was in a regular carton? Then it dawned on me: soymilk is supposed to be shaken. Obviously, we can't be trusted to hold the carton closed while we shake. So I've gone back to local, organic cowmilk. Or sometimes neither.
Posted by: Danielle | May 06, 2011 at 07:55 PM
dental floss. i love my dental floss, especially the plastic ribbon kind that glides through my teeth without getting all caught up like the string version. sinful, i know. not to mention the hundreds of little plastic floss containers i have gone through in my life. there must be a better way! something compostable would be great, like a cardboard spool.
Posted by: Aja Reeser | May 07, 2011 at 05:47 PM
There are so many things that I thought I could not get without accepting the accompanying plastic, but then managed to find alternatives to the seemingly inevitable... except for eyeglasses. I'm old, I can't see, even under the best of circumstances, and I don't really like wire frames... but even if I did, there are the little nose pad thingies and the sheathes over the ear pieces. And if my lenses were made of glass, they would slide off my nose from the weight!
Posted by: alice | May 07, 2011 at 09:15 PM
I have not had any luck finding ice cube trays that are not plastic. We don't have an automatic ice cube maker and living in Florida we use a lot of ice!
Posted by: Laura Serbin | May 10, 2011 at 06:36 PM
I'm slowly getting off the "stuff" lol. Eliminating Plastic is the key to our earth becoming a sustainable place. It's reassuring to see that people are becoming more and more educated on the topics and embracing a life without plastic :)
Posted by: Arburg | May 19, 2011 at 05:41 PM
Just found your blog and love it. I am late for the prize(argh...) but wanna share what I've been looking for anyway. Since I moved to Canada, I get furious every time I go shopping. The reason is the plastic, of course. It isn't easy to avoid it and I really hate it!.
I was looking for a toilet brush that had no plastic. I spent few days searching and couldn't find any. I talked to one eco shop in Ottawa and told them what I was looking for. When I mentioned that I used it all the time at my home country and I should bring some next time I'm home, they said I should bring some to them too! :)
Posted by: Nui | June 22, 2011 at 11:14 AM
sinful, i know. not to mention the hundreds of little plastic floss containers i have gone through in my life. there must be a better way! something medyum
Posted by: medyum ve fal bakma çeşitleri | October 20, 2011 at 07:02 AM
'm gradually getting off the "stuff" lol. Removing Nasty is the key to our soil becoming a maintainable location. It's comforting to see that people are becoming more and more knowledgeable on the issues and adopting a life without plastic :)
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