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We get styrofoam recycling! And q. on Shampoo Bars...
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Posted by jamie_mt z4/5 MT (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 08 at 11:10
| Yes, I read it in the paper just yesterday - one of our local furniture stores teamed up with another company to start a polystyrene recycling plant. They say it's costing a ton of money, but they're committed to keeping thier packing materials out of the landfill, and now those services are open to other stores in the area, and the public. Any light styrofoam and *packing peanuts* are able to be recycled there. Woo Hoo! We never have much of that stuff, but it's nice to know that on the occasions we do, there's somewhere to take it now instead of throwing it out. I guess they toss the polystyrene through a chipper, then another machine that melts it down into a "goo" and extrudes it to cool in hard "rope-like" things. Once they get enough of those "ingots" made to fill a truck, they'll ship it off to be made into other things. Very cool.
Other than that bit of good news...I had a question that is completely unrelated. For those of you who use shampoo bars, do you need a conditioner? I'm thinking of trying a semi-locally made (made in our state) shampoo bar to cut down on plastic bottles (I love thier soaps), but I'm not sure how that works with regard to conditioning. Anyone have any experience with that? |
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Shampoo & Conditioner ...
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| congrats on the styrofoam recycling! Here's hoping it gets to my neck of the woods soon. As for the conditioner question: well, I just went organic w/ shampoo, and my hair feels like straw. I know that it's the shock of it, and the stripping off of all that other garbage that has been soaked on to it for the past couple of decades ... it'll get better, but until it does, I'm not going w/o my organic conditioner. So long story short: if the company that makes the bar also makes conditioner, I'd go ahead & get some. All of the shampoo/conditioner bottles I've seen lately are a #1 or #2 and can be recycled. |
RE: We get styrofoam recycling! And q. on Shampoo Bars...
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| Wow, that's great about the styrofoam! I wish we had something like that in our area. I have never even heard of shampoo bars??? Any links to info on those? :)
Dee |
RE: We get styrofoam recycling! And q. on Shampoo Bars...
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| Dee, they're generally sold by "natural" or "organic" body care companies - Burt's Bees has one, Lush is the most popular, I think, and then there's one called "J.R.Ligget's Original Shampoo Bar", if I remember correctly. It's basically a bar of soap specifically for your hair (supposedly good for shaving too). I've heard of Blue House Soaps too...never tried them though (never tried any, to be exact). The thing that's nice about them is, no plastic (with the possible exception of Lush through the mail)...most are just in cardboard or unwrapped. I'm going to check out the bar sold by Windrift Hill Soaps here in Montana (more local to me, and I really love thier soaps). It does say that it's naturally moisturizing, so we'll see (thier soap certainly is - it's superfatted, so my skin is really super soft and smooth just out of the shower). It's not like I don't have bottles of conditioner laying around that need to be used up, so if I need it, it's here, I was just wondering what other people had experienced with it. :-) |
RE: We get styrofoam recycling! And q. on Shampoo Bars...
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| Thanks, Jamie, for that info. I mean, I kinda figured out what they were, lol, but I had never heard of them before, and I'm going to check out some of those companies. Thanks! :)
Dee |
RE: We get styrofoam recycling! And q. on Shampoo Bars...
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| Have you looked into coconut oil. google to discover its benefits .If you look hard enough you will find it in a glass jar. Im a believer |
RE: We get styrofoam recycling! And q. on Shampoo Bars...
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| It's nice to hear of an industry doing the right thing, even if it costs them money. For those who don't have a recycling plant nearby, you can take packing peanuts to the UPS store (if you have one of those). I keep a large trash bag or carboard box, and when it gets full I hand it over. Perhaps any "pack-n-ship" type store would take them? I don't know about those. Just thinkin'. |
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