Have you ever noticed that sometimes your plastic straw comes individualy wrapped in more plastic? I want to provide my ideas for products that can replace the standard plastic fare out there. Yes, I give them to you free of charge, take them, there is no value in an idea only in the implementation. I could be the mogul of a company doling out disposable biodegradable dining utensils but that would get in the way of my loafing around. Perhaps there is more here than profitability.
I go to the grocery with my canvas tote bags, like any sane person. If I don't have them with me I still ask for no bag, but I don't tend to buy more than I can carry. One way to accomplish this is to enter the store without the cart or the basket. You look foolish balancing a six pack of energy drink on your head. See I have already designed plastic out of your life.
I think we should have the convenience of single use products, but plastic is not designed for single use. It is rigid and does not break down. It could be used over and over again, but it is not. I can't imagine this practice can continue on with the dwindling supply of petroleum out there. Of course there is the soy based plastic that does degrade but takes far too long to compost at home, so it too is shipped off to recycling plants which can't handle it. Oops. Who wants to continually be jabbed with someones saliva covered fork every time they dig in the compost pile. Soy plastic is still plastic it has to be manufactured. A step in the right direction, but I want to go further.
Have you seen these lilly pads that have a perfect little rim on them? What is that a dinner plate for frogs?
There has to be a reed out there in this vast world that would double as a straw. You want to explain to me how plastic straws are cheaper than a reed. Grow it and slice it, pure profit. As I understand it some of these grasses are nearly impossible to kill. Phragmites perhaps. Let me go blow on my saxophone while you ponder this one over.
Chop sticks would seem like an obvious choice for forks, but what I've heard about the devastation caused to forests because of the manufacturing of so many million little sticks. One tree per set? Hmmm, what to use as a fork that is more convenient than two little sticks... Iv'e got it! Your hands. Much of the world eats this way, and so can you.
This one I have on lock. Cups. Did you know there are forms of bamboo out there that are as thick as your neck. You've got an addiction and you need the gut busting 64oz of cola, no problem. Regulations require that they all be the identical in size so that the consumer knows how much poison is entering his veins. Okay, I've got a work around. How about we dispense the correct amount, not make it the cups responsibility. If you go to a party that doesn't have beer pong or flip cup going on, then you might as well set an oil rig on fire because we are past it, victory for the discontinued use of plastic cups. If you didn't catch it, I am advocating for 100% bamboo cups. Bamboo is a natural cup each section is already water tight.
So now you have to clean up after your all night rager. Besides all the things that lie in the yard, there are the spills, and the scrubbing. The most absorbent thing out there, off the top of my head is dry moss. Added benefit, dry moss is not necessarily dead, after it soaks up your cheap domestic beer when you throw it outside the moss might just live on it. While natural sea sponges are biodegradable they do not live on after adding water, even salt water, the coral reef ecosystem is too delicate to be extracting single use items anyhow. Scrubbing with moss might not hold up to the job, but I know what will. I sprig of pine. This one I have even tried myself, and it leaves a fresh scent in the pan. No one ever tried to sell you actual pine bows for cleaning because the manufacturer is in your backyard, and they are giving away free samples for the rest of your life.
I could go on because there are an endless number of solutions in nature. Write me for a consult on your next project.
I go to the grocery with my canvas tote bags, like any sane person. If I don't have them with me I still ask for no bag, but I don't tend to buy more than I can carry. One way to accomplish this is to enter the store without the cart or the basket. You look foolish balancing a six pack of energy drink on your head. See I have already designed plastic out of your life.
I think we should have the convenience of single use products, but plastic is not designed for single use. It is rigid and does not break down. It could be used over and over again, but it is not. I can't imagine this practice can continue on with the dwindling supply of petroleum out there. Of course there is the soy based plastic that does degrade but takes far too long to compost at home, so it too is shipped off to recycling plants which can't handle it. Oops. Who wants to continually be jabbed with someones saliva covered fork every time they dig in the compost pile. Soy plastic is still plastic it has to be manufactured. A step in the right direction, but I want to go further.
Have you seen these lilly pads that have a perfect little rim on them? What is that a dinner plate for frogs?
There has to be a reed out there in this vast world that would double as a straw. You want to explain to me how plastic straws are cheaper than a reed. Grow it and slice it, pure profit. As I understand it some of these grasses are nearly impossible to kill. Phragmites perhaps. Let me go blow on my saxophone while you ponder this one over.
Chop sticks would seem like an obvious choice for forks, but what I've heard about the devastation caused to forests because of the manufacturing of so many million little sticks. One tree per set? Hmmm, what to use as a fork that is more convenient than two little sticks... Iv'e got it! Your hands. Much of the world eats this way, and so can you.
This one I have on lock. Cups. Did you know there are forms of bamboo out there that are as thick as your neck. You've got an addiction and you need the gut busting 64oz of cola, no problem. Regulations require that they all be the identical in size so that the consumer knows how much poison is entering his veins. Okay, I've got a work around. How about we dispense the correct amount, not make it the cups responsibility. If you go to a party that doesn't have beer pong or flip cup going on, then you might as well set an oil rig on fire because we are past it, victory for the discontinued use of plastic cups. If you didn't catch it, I am advocating for 100% bamboo cups. Bamboo is a natural cup each section is already water tight.
So now you have to clean up after your all night rager. Besides all the things that lie in the yard, there are the spills, and the scrubbing. The most absorbent thing out there, off the top of my head is dry moss. Added benefit, dry moss is not necessarily dead, after it soaks up your cheap domestic beer when you throw it outside the moss might just live on it. While natural sea sponges are biodegradable they do not live on after adding water, even salt water, the coral reef ecosystem is too delicate to be extracting single use items anyhow. Scrubbing with moss might not hold up to the job, but I know what will. I sprig of pine. This one I have even tried myself, and it leaves a fresh scent in the pan. No one ever tried to sell you actual pine bows for cleaning because the manufacturer is in your backyard, and they are giving away free samples for the rest of your life.
I could go on because there are an endless number of solutions in nature. Write me for a consult on your next project.
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