Use porcelain plates, silverware, and glasses instead of plastic and paper.  Each year, forty billion plastic utensils are thrown into landfills across the country.  Besides waste, you can save money, too.  Using your own utensils, glasses, and flatware is free, whereas the cost of plastic plates, forks, knives, and cups for a total of fifty meals could add up to $100.

Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green Book.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.

*When packing a child’s lunch consider using forks, knives, spoons, and cups from a second hand store.  I’ve learned the hard way, one time too many times, not to pack the good stuff.  This way if your child should lose or ruin any of those items, you are not out a good piece of silverware.

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