Category Archives: consumerism
Awesome Finds
There is a certain element of secondhand shopping that is more thrilling than regular shopping. Let’s call it “the hunt”. You know, that exhilarating feeling you get when you’ve found a single useful or beautiful or perfectly fitting item in … Continue reading
Filed under consumerism, plastic bags
Simplicity and Slippers
Somewhere on the road to zero waste, I became a bit of a hoarder. I don’t mean a hoarder of garbage, I just meant that I don’t throw things out if I think they “might” be useful, and I definitely … Continue reading
Filed under Around the house, consumerism
Package-Free Shopping
I love finding stores that make it easy to shop zero waste. Stores like Unpackaged (England) or In.gredients (Texas) or La Forêt (Wakefield). My most recent “find” was this past weekend in Powell River, BC. When we pulled into town, … Continue reading
Filed under consumerism, packaging, reusable containers
Tracking Trash
Where the heck does our trash go? I mean, I know my garbage goes to the landfill in Delta or up to the recently expanded Cache Creek, but what about everything else? What about those glass jars and cardboard boxes? … Continue reading
Filed under consumerism, recycling
How Many Winters For A Jacket?
My winter jacket is green. It’s made of some sort of lightly insulated synthetic material and sewn by someone in China. It’s has one of those fake fur trims around the hood that can be zipped off. I bought it … Continue reading
Filed under consumerism
It’s Contagious
It’s funny how one thing leads to another. Take, for example, consumerism. At the outset of the Clean Bin Project, we decided that we wanted to buy less stuff. That lead to us taking a better look at packaging and … Continue reading
Filed under consumerism, food
