{"id":2500,"date":"2010-07-27T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2011-11-25T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T20:18:41","slug":"welcome-back-the-plastiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/welcome-back-the-plastiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back the Plastiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard the news yet, be sure to congratulate the crew of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplastiki.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Plastiki<\/a> on their epic voyage across the Pacific. They set out to raise awareness of the threats of plastic bottle waste and ended up inspiring a wave of activism.<\/p>\n<p>Here at UncommonGoods we try to do our part.\u00a0 We print our catalogs on recycled and FSC- certified paper. More than half of our products are handmade or constructed from recycled materials. We&#8217;re always looking for more ways to become more sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-large-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19090\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19090_LunchBoxes1-515x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19090_LunchBoxes1-515x201.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19090_LunchBoxes1-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And just last week, we resolved to shake up our monthly company lunches. Each month we all get together for lunch, and we go through a fair amount of plastic plates and silverware.<\/p>\n<p>So we agreed as a company that we would try to reduce and reuse. Next month, many of us will be dining with these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19090&amp;source=blog_post90\">Box Appetit lunch boxes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And after seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplastiki.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos of the Plastiki<\/a> docking in Sydney Harbor, I&#8217;m gearing up to do more.<\/p>\n<p>What\u00a0 about you? What kinds of things can you do to cut back on plastic waste?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 people just sailed across the Pacific on 12,500 plastic bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4,30,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}