This from Red Eft’s blog, Oswegatchie, in Kingston, New York.

"We have left-overs when we eat out. Today I had lunch with my three
kids while the spouse was slaving away over a hot laptop at home, so we
brought him some salad, fried rice and shrimp lo mein in one of our new
To-Go Ware Food Serve ‘n Store Set.
This is a handy item that everyone should have with them when they go
out to eat. It’s only $20 and as much as I’m not interested in selling
stuff on my blog, tons of plastic bags and styrofoam crap could be
retired if we all toted one of these cute, aesthetically pleasing
objects with us everywhere we go.

"We had a 65-person Passover
Seder at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills a few
weeks ago and we told everyone to bring their own tableware and they
did! Another woman and I brought cloth napkins and used what glasses
were in the cabinets. It was virtually a zero-waste Seder. All big
events can be done this way and the most interesting thing is that
people are overjoyed to do it.

"Did you know that Berkeley, California, has a Zero Waste Commission?
It used to be called the Solid Waste Management Commission, but in 2005
Berkeley set a citywide goal of zero waste by 2020, and in 2006 they
changed the name of the body in charge of getting to zero.

""If
it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished,
refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be
restricted, redesigned, or removed from production."

"Is your town doing that?  If not, why not?  Here’s more.