Hi Rita,
Thank you for your wonderful email and for your support! We love hearing from our customers and especially when they have new ideas or suggestions.The suggestion to change the product tag application is a great one and would definitely help to drive home our no plastic motto. I will contact our manufacturer to see if there is a different way to apply the tag...hemp twine is a great idea too!
Kelly
I mentioned in my last post that I am directing my efforts at companies and local businesses which I already support. There's a reason for that.
I only have so much time to devote to what I believe is such an important cause. I want to make my efforts count. So --for now any way-- I am putting my attention on companies that I actually deal with.
I withdrew my attention long ago from the main stream consumer world, and I find that I exist quite nicely without any of that in my life.
The more of us that actively reject this "Story of Stuff", (to borrow a famous phrase), the less power it has. When we take our attention off of it, and simply get on with the business of life, in a way that works for us, we stop feeding it with our fascination. We stop being hypnotized by it. And we have more energy & resources to devote to the things that really matter in life.
And it's about to get real, as I deal with my old "stuff". I'll share that in tomorrow's post.
Good luck to all you plastic free activists. You're doing good work in the world.
Yay, good work! Funny how many of these companies don't think about plastic tags or plastic wrapping! Bought my boyfriend a stainless steel lunchbox a couple of years ago, it's called EcoLunchbox, and it came in recycled brown paper box...and inside it was wrapped in a plastic bag!!! Grr!
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ReplyDeleteGreat that you have had such a positive response. I too see contacting companies as much a part of Plastic Free July (and beyond) as avoiding plastic itself. We need systemic change and that will only happen if we keep pushing for it.
ReplyDeletePS - I invested in several of those tiffin tins for the same reason and they are fantastic. Not as non-free plastic containers but also as a 'portion control' measure.