Archive for August 4, 2009
Reduce: Cotton Tips
What can I do to reduce the number of cotton tips (q-tips) we go through? Although the ends are made of cotton (biodegradable), the stems are plastic, I think, so you couldn’t compost them.
I used to at least buy them in cardboard boxes, but these days I can only find them in plastic containers… and I don’t think it’s the right kind of plastic to recycle either. I tried keeping the containers to reuse, but I just don’t really have anything to use them for. Maybe I’ll try Freecycling them.
These are the cotton tips I bought most recently from Coles.
I can’t think of a replacement for the thing we use them for the most – nothing else cleans your ears quite the right way! Even Yankee Elv, who has the cleanest ears ever, uses them to itch the ear her hearing aid goes in.
Ideas? Anyone? Beuller?
EDIT: Jun, aka Beuller, commented below that in Asia people use reusable metal ‘ear diggers‘ (nice name) to clean their ears. Thanks Jun!
Newsflash: Nissan’s electric car
Great news about Nissan’s new electric car, Leaf!
Nissan's CEO with the new car, Leaf. Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye via HuffPo.
Due out in 2010, it’s affordable and looks enough like a ‘regular’ car that people shouldn’t be afraid to buy it. Electricity is cheaper than petrol too, which will be another added bonus. Imagine fueling your car on electricity sourced from sustainable resources like solar and wind!
Read more about the history of electric cars in my review of the doco Who Killed the Electric Car?.
My only surprise is that with a name like Leaf, the car isn’t green, but I guess that would be pretty cliche.
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