Refill.Reuse.Reduce - Buy Stainless Steel Water Bottles vs. Plastic

Starting to buy Back-to-School Supplies? I know I have started stocking up. What choices can you make that are more green this year?

One great change you can make this year is that instead of buying your kids a plastic water bottle for their lunchbags, you could make a greener choice by purchasing a stainless steel water bottle.

Refill, Reuse, Reduce. Plastics are forever and stainless steel water bottles can actually be recycled! The average American uses 168 water bottles a year - can this be your year where you don't use any?

SOURCES:
http://www.takebackthetap.org/
http://www.kleankanteen.com/

Celestial Seasonings - Green Beverages - 2009.Jan.20

Celestial Seasonings uses as little packaging as possible to market its teas. The company's unique pillow tea bag requires no strings, tags, staples, individual overwrapping, or foil envelopes. This results in keeping more than fifteen hundred tons of waste out of landfills each year. Tea bag papers are packaged in cardboard boxes made from 100 percent recycled paperboard, which is derived from at least 35 percent post-consumer waste. The boxes include resealable interior liners to keep the tea fresh. You can recycle the liners, box, and compost the bags:

SOURCE: "Big Green Purse" by Diane MacEachern, Page 140