Reusable Goodness

You know how the planet is slowing filling up with eon-slow degrading, wildlife choking, river polluting plastic? Somehow we humans managed to get in the habit of buying drinks and lots of other products in disposable containers and bottles. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a horrifying culmination of this penchant of ours. But what to do? I much prefer to drink my coffees from takeaway containers with those cool sippy lids and water is much more portable when carried in plastic bottles rather than in the palm of your hand.

Luckily, I have recently happened across a couple of funky little products that are dead cool and incidentally rather enviro conscious. The first one is the fabulouso Aussie made (another bit of brilliance to come out of Melbourne) KeepCup. I can bearly wrap my head around the coolness and cleverness of the KeepCup ... it's a re-usable takeaway coffee cup complete with sippy lid (virtually essential to coffee drinking enjoyment, I think you'll agree), moveable plug and silicone band so you can customise your coffee order. You do this by filling in your choice with a permanent marker. This means I can order my ridiculous Large Weak Soy Decaf Latte with 2 sugars without having to even open my mouth.

KeepCups come in an ever increasing range of colour combinations and three industry standard sizes (small, medium & large). This is what mine looks like: http://www.keepcupstore.com/servlet/the-22/KeepCup-MED-F/Detail

The KeepCup idea is just so bloody clever I didn't even blink when I laid eyes on the Cheeki stainless steel bottle. We don't usually buy water in plastic bottles as MBH has an understandable aversion to paying for water, and I recently read that its not such a good idea to reuse plastic bottles because chemicals can leech out of the plastic as they begin to degrade. We took our Cheekis on a roadtrip this week and they have definitely come up a winner. So far I have spotted them at pharmacies and health food shops.