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How to Sew a Simple and Inexpensive Utensil Roll
Make this utensil roll, stash it in your bag and wield your real cutlery everywhere you go to deflect the disposable stuff for plastic-free eating.
How to Make Reusable Produce Bags [with Video]
Upcycle sheets, fabric remnants and scraps into reusable cloth produce bags for zero-waste and plastic-free shopping.
8.3 Billion Reasons to Replace Plastic Produce Bags with Reusables
Tuck a few reusable produce bags into your shopping bags so you always have them. Buy them or sew them out of old sheets and scrap fabric.
How to Sew a Bento Bag
Family, friends and coworkers, please stop reading now… And if you don’t sew, you can also skip this post and buy an original, proper bento bag from Ambatalia, a small, locally owned producer of gorgeous textile goods made from natural fibers and purveyor of daily essentials to help you live “a non-disposable life.” Check out […]
How to Organize a Produce Bag Making Meetup
This past Sunday, eight people from the Meetup group I belong to met to sew a pile of simple cloth produce bags. Everyone pitched in. Some ironed, some cut, some sewed. In the flurry of activity, I didn’t do an exact count of the bags we churned out but including the handful I finished up […]
Repurposed-Cloth Produce and Bulk Bags
Jump to the bottom of this post for info on snagging some free bags I made from new cloth. In my quest to eliminate kitchen waste, my most successful strategies have been: Using cloth produce and bulk bags or containers for shopping Shopping at the farmer’s market Shopping at the bulk bins These three tips […]
How to Sew Reusable Cloth Produce and Bulk Bags
I’ve been diligent about using cloth shopping bags for literally decades now (I bought my first cloth bag in 1988). But until recently, I rarely used cloth produce bags. I’m all for plastic bag bans, but we need to address the plastic produce bag issue—those things generate huge amounts of plastic waste. So in 2011, when […]