From reusable paper towels to plastic bag replacements that you can even use in the microwave
Photo: Courtesy of the Retailers If you’ve already got yourself a reusable silicone straw or two, and you recycle and compost to the best of your ability, you might be looking for ways make your kitchen even eco-friendlier — which isn’t always easy. “It’s not always possible to make the choices you prefer to make due to constraints like time and money,” says Micaela Preston of the natural-living blog Mindful Momma.
$15 for 3 at Amazon Buy $15 for 3 at Amazon Buy Organic Washed Cotton Napkin $4 now 50% off $2 Swapping paper napkins for cloth napkins also goes a long way in reducing your consumption of single-use paper products. When Kelley Jonkoff, a certified KonMari consultant based in Raleigh, finally stopped using paper towels as napkins, she had a realization: “Until you cut way back on paper towels, you don’t realize just how much money you’re throwing in the trash buying them.
$40 for 5 at Food52 Buy Etee Organic Reusable Food Wraps $18 To wrap up food without using plastic wrap, two of our experts — Preston and Ali Rosen, the author of the potluck cookbook Bring It!: Tried and True Recipes for Potlucks and Casual Entertaining — recommend using beeswax paper. “I am obsessed with beeswax paper to wrap things,” says Rosen. “It replaces plastic bags and plastic wrap and is super easy to clean.
$12 at Amazon Buy Rezip Stand-Up Leakproof Reusable Storage Bag $20 Strategist contributor Alison Freer also swears by reusable food bags, specifically Rezip’s stand-up, airtight, leakproof, zipper-top bags made from FDA–grade PEVA material, which are “the closest thing I’ve found to the classic disposable zipper-lock storage bag,” according to her. They come in a set of three, which makes them a little more budget-friendly than the Stasher bag, which is sold individually.
$11 at Amazon Buy $11 at Amazon Buy Glasslock Assorted Oven-Safe Container Set, 4-Piece $25 For a non-jar option, consider these glass containers that Jonkoff recommends. She admits that “these lids are made of plastic,” but promises that “they last far longer than your average all-plastic grocery store food-storage containers. My husband and I have been using the same two sets for over five years with no issues.
$25 at W&P Buy Best reusable produce bags Colony Co. Reusable Produce Bags $40 now 38% off $25 You can also replace single-use plastic produce bags with reusable ones when you go grocery shopping, according to our experts. Environmental-lifestyle expert Danny Seo of blog Naturally, Danny Seo, loves using cotton produce bags, specifically “these bags I found on Amazon.
$15 at Amazon Buy $15 at Amazon Buy YETI Rambler Stainless Steel Vacuum Insulated Tumbler $20 Laurel Miller, editor of Edible Aspen and the blog the Sustainable Kitchen, goes out of her way to avoid plastic water bottles and disposable coffee cups, which is why she turns to Yeti insulated beverage containers for hot drinks, cocktails while camping, and everything in between.
$16 at Amazon Buy $16 at Amazon Buy SodaStream Fizzi Sparkling Water Maker Bundle $150 If you have a La Croix habit, another way to cut down on your waste is by making your own seltzer water at home, so you’re not throwing away piles of aluminum cans away each week. Fenton says her Sodastream machine is her number-one eco-friendly kitchen product. “We drink a lot of seltzer with no packaging waste thanks to our bubbly machine,” she says.
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