If we clean it, they will come!

I love this idea and the leaves are pretty too.

Many places in Asia you get each item wrapped in plastic, than in a bag and another. I am looking at you Indonesia, China

This is so cool. Awesome idea!

Am still doing this with chocolate spread glasses from Rewe (Germany)

Love this! Just a wee curious how it gets emptied. Truck shaped like a shark?

Went to a pumpkin farm that had pigs and they'd give all the damaged pumpkins to them so that they didn't go to waste. Everyone was so happy, especially the piggies!

Yeah but there are d**k heads that like to sue companies and ruin it for everyone tho!

Sorry Grandma, we need to use the urn for shopping...

I heard that they're banned in a lot of American neighbourhoods because of the HMO telling you what you can do even if you own garden! Although it's similar in other places too- here in London our apartment block says that "to maintain standards, residents are forbidden to dry laundry on their balcony". We use a clothes horse indoors.

Finally!

Can be done with any kind of bag. We used to make them up from all the free/cheap products that I used to get by couponing. By the time the holidays came around, we usually had between 15 and 20 full.bags which we donated to a local shelter. We also made up as many small kits as possible, using whatever we still had, also donated. Wish I could still do that

If the order isn't to go and your eating in the establishment you don't need it served in to go packaging.

I would love the skills to do this! Modern basketweaving!

Bet it also smells nice!

This! While I am not saying the average consumer shouldn't be trying to help the environment, I feel like the most serious help would be if the corporations and industries changed their practices. For example, I can only recycle plastic #1 and #2. Why are there so many #5? (On a separate not: Why are the plastic numbers so difficult to find/see?) Why am I not using disposable straws but the fishing industry is responsible for half the plastic in the ocean... it goes on and on.

If you have the cardboard egg cartons, they work perfectly for this craft!

So pretty! Great job!

Like the food co-ops of yore!

A lot of foods at fairs are also served like this in Germany (where Nordsee is based) - fried mushrooms, corn on the cob, chips/fries.

Bulk refills

Where do I get those lids?

Wow

Nice to have talented friends who understand you!

I don't think this really is just a case of: "You Are What You Don't Properly Dispose Of". There are an awful amount of corpses littering Mount Everest, just saying (along with a lot of more mundane trash).

good ppl to be

It's why I don't buy many brands of facial tissue. Peeling that plastic off the dispensing slots is a major struggle. There is a brand that does not have this. It starts with P and ends with ffs. It's better tissue, too, IMO.

Jars, bottles, cute bottles with droppers from face serums, decorative boxes from cookies... I am a hoarder who thinks "maybe I can use this one day".

My county recycles glass, and glass can be recycled indefinitely, so don't feel bad if you can't keep jars and whatnot and have local recycling options.

I have a similar problem, only I tend to acquire that kind of thing just out and about. I see something that might be useful (or round, or shiny), I have to pick it up. I had quite the collection of random stuff that I found while out walking. Coins, cans, purses, I even found a laptop complete with power assembly and a printer in trash cans once... I used the printer for over 6 months before it gave up the ghost and the laptop still (mostly) works over 10 years later!

This is me

Added circle- teacher!

Just emptied [again] a box my wrote on for one of our moves, getting ready to reuse it, it still says cappuccino machine in her handwriting - she’s been gone for 12 years now

My family drinks out of mason jars saved from pasta sauce purchased. We save the lids and also them for left overs. Pickle jars are used to make sun tea or store dry goods. We have seriously lowered our trash production.

The stocks just went up on all those plastic costco nut containers I've saved. They just switched to plastic bags for their nuts. --- I use them for storing screws and nails and stuff in my shop.

Story of my life. I love eco bags. Have soooo many. Kinda defeats the purpose.

A huge new crayon!