I am newly addicted on To-Go Ware’s RePEat Bamboo Utensils. Recently, on their road trip to Asheville N.C., our friends Dill and Raylon picked us up the most fabulous gift. They got us both a set of reusable To-Go Ware bamboo utensils in a handy mini-bag made from recycled plastic bottles. I haven’t left the house without them since.
Every time I’ve been eating my mid-morning snack at my desk, I stare at my plastic spoon, which although I have washed and reused several times, always fails to meet the grade. Coupled with the view I have from my desk of a poster featuring the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with the caption “Just Say No to Plastic”, I have long been looking for a better alternative. Given that enough plastic spoons and forks are thrown away every year to circumnavigate the globe three times, it is about time we started rethinking disposables.
I have been known to cart around metal utensils with me that jangle in my bag on the way to meetings and always seem to make it to the very bottom of my questionably-clean messenger bag. (Nothing says dedication like wiping lint and the debris of countless field trips off your spoon before dipping in your soy yogurt.) I have been left thinking “there has got to be a better way”. And then gorgeously, our dear friends handed it to me over beers one night. There should have been an angelic choir that rang out in the background Monty Python-style. I absolutely love them. They are sustainable, washable, aesthetically-pleasing and I can clip the holder to a convenient spot on my bag with the handy mini-carabiner.
What’s more, they are absolutely guaranteed to be a conversation starter if you bust them out at a work meeting.
Check out the link to the supplier’s site. The video featuring Conserve, a project based in India that makes the utensil holders out of scrap plastic bags, is a must-see.
http://www.to-goware.com/store/cart.php
Every time I’ve been eating my mid-morning snack at my desk, I stare at my plastic spoon, which although I have washed and reused several times, always fails to meet the grade. Coupled with the view I have from my desk of a poster featuring the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with the caption “Just Say No to Plastic”, I have long been looking for a better alternative. Given that enough plastic spoons and forks are thrown away every year to circumnavigate the globe three times, it is about time we started rethinking disposables.
I have been known to cart around metal utensils with me that jangle in my bag on the way to meetings and always seem to make it to the very bottom of my questionably-clean messenger bag. (Nothing says dedication like wiping lint and the debris of countless field trips off your spoon before dipping in your soy yogurt.) I have been left thinking “there has got to be a better way”. And then gorgeously, our dear friends handed it to me over beers one night. There should have been an angelic choir that rang out in the background Monty Python-style. I absolutely love them. They are sustainable, washable, aesthetically-pleasing and I can clip the holder to a convenient spot on my bag with the handy mini-carabiner.
What’s more, they are absolutely guaranteed to be a conversation starter if you bust them out at a work meeting.
Check out the link to the supplier’s site. The video featuring Conserve, a project based in India that makes the utensil holders out of scrap plastic bags, is a must-see.
http://www.to-goware.com/store/cart.php
