Tag Single Use Plastic Ban

I am thrilled to share that MennoAdventures is now partnering with LastObject – a fairly new Danish company focused on replacing single use items with reusable, sustainable alternatives. Currently, they have replacements for single use cotton swabs, travel size tissue packs, and cotton rounds, in addition to accessories (carry pouches etc). As a new company, I expect that we will see many new products coming from LastObject in the future – so stay tuned!

For more details on this, and all of the other great, sustainable products and companies we partner with, check out the online store! 🙂

Our mission – LastObject

Our mission – eliminate single use items by creating reusable sustainable alternatives.
Our purpose is to provide the world with sustainable choices.
Our values:
✓ Our products must have at least 10x real environmental impact vs the traditional single use products they replace.
✓ We build premium products with high usability and excellent design – ”good enough” is not good enough – we are obsessed with our products.
✓ We are end-to-end sustainable across our entire value chain, from cradle to grave.

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Here are a few glimmers of light:

Guardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms: Guardian

CBC.ca: Sobeys removing plastic bags from its stores on Friday. Other single use plastics bans hopefully coming soon, based on several reports of possible movement with the Canadian federal government.

Public opinion, though, will need some work, at least in some circles. We were picking up a few things at a Zehrs location yesterday, and the person bagging noticed our cloth bags, but still tried to put things into a plastic bag. When we declined, he said something like “Well, if you don’t want single use plastic bags, why don’t you go to Sobeys instead of shopping here?” Instead of walking away and talking my business somewhere else right then, I suggested that Zehrs match Sobeys and get rid of the single use plastic, as well. Not sure that he got the message, but at least I said it – and I doubt that he is responsible for the corporate decision-making at Zehrs, anyways. Hopefully change will come sooner rather than later, because single use plastic (of all kinds) is a change that I have been requesting for a long time. 🙂