Homage to Aro St minimart

The Aro St minimart rocks. Not only can you get Vogels, organic Purebread and organic milk there, it is one of the only places in Wellington that I have been able to find organic, free-range eggs. (Supermarkets usually only have organic barn or cage-free eggs.)

You can even get Architecture NZ in the magazine section.

Aro Valley is the best!

Plastic-free courier packages

Hooray, I've been able to update the Plastic-free actions post.

I use couriers a lot at work, and recently I've discovered that you don't need to use the plastic TrakPacks, you can just use a regular (paper!) envelope and stick a courier sticker on. Since I courier stuff at least a couple of times a week, this represents quite a saving on plastic.

I guess if you're a dyed-in-the-wool greenie this would seem obvious, but I had always assumed you need to use the official plastic bags.

Now I know there's another option it seems obvious to me too.

Plastic tally for one week

This is the plastic I threw away during the week in July when I was keeping a record of it:

window envelopes x 4
magazine wrappers x 2
polystyrene meat tray and plastic wrap
boughten sandwich gladwrap x 2
bread bag
cookie packet

The polystyrene meat tray was an old one from out of the freezer.