Urth bags – eco friendly bags

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Posted by vidhya | Posted in No Plastic | Posted on 20-08-2009

I was trying to find how to make eco friendly bags. Mainly….I wanted to make such bags to give the people who come home on Ganesh Chathurthi. We nrmally give all the ladiesbeetle leaves and coconut etc…they always want a bag to carry it…and we normally end up giving them plastic bags.
This time I decided [...]

Big shops-Need to use big brains

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Posted by vidhya | Posted in No Plastic | Posted on 04-08-2009

Everyone is talking about environmental pollution…..everyone says that green house effect is bad….plastics are not good….etc etc…but most of them do not seem to think seriously about it.
When we go to the bigger shops like big bazar….we are forced to get plastic bags from them. Even if I buy just one small candy bar they [...]

Cloth instead of Plastic

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Posted by vidhya | Posted in No Plastic | Posted on 04-08-2009

I detest usage of plastic bags. Once in a while it is fine….but as a regular practise…….I hate it.
What I do is carry my own bag with me whenever I go out to make sure that I dont take the plastic bags given at shops.
Recently I started a new thing…. I started stitching some bags. [...]

Steel instead of Plastic

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Posted by vidhya | Posted in No Plastic | Posted on 04-08-2009

One small thing that I did…..and feel really good about….
We used plastic mugs and buckets at home. One of the mugs broke and I had to replace it. I bought a steel mug instead of a plastic one.
Of course the steel mug was much costlier….it costed my 95Rs …wereas a plastic mug would have costed [...]