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Reuse Cheese Wax

I love cheese but my compost does not seem to love the cheese wax. Instead I have been storing it until I could find a way to reuse cheese wax. Turns out it makes a handy fire starter.  Other reuse cheese wax ideas include: Sealing jars and bottles Seal envelopes and invitations with a  wax seal kit   Reuse the wax to coat your own hard…

Synthetic clothing fibers in our oceans

Image from valueontherainbow.tumblr.com Last year I read an article that made my heart sink. It was about synthetic clothing fibers in our oceans. Months before I had only just reached my first year of living plastic free and I was feeling pretty good. The article said : 85% of the human-made material found on the shoreline wer…

#mybag

This is #mybag …. It's made of cotton and has been loyal friend for over a year. I got it when I became a member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition . It's a tote bag but I use it for so many other things besides collecting my vegetables each week at the farmers market. I like to use it to pick up rubbish (don't wor…