In September I actually followed through with the idea from one of my earlier blogposts about turning off my garage freezer in order to save some money on my energy bill. Around the same time I also started rinsing my dishes with cold water before putting them in the dishwasher and the same goes with [...]

Compostable plastic that’s made from plants is not a novelty. The manufacturing process is rather involved. It requires land and fertilizer to grow the plants, mainly corn, then the necessary ingredients need to be extracted from the plant, then additional chemical/biological processes are required that involve energy input. Currently to make a pound of widely [...]

What is the definition of ‘biodegradable’? Here are some definitions that I found:

capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria
capable of being reduced to water and carbon dioxide by the action of microorganisms
capable of being broken down by air, water and bacteria

Up until now, ‘biodegradable’ used to mean to me that if I throw such [...]