Reading material: About Paper Cups

[OakLeaf]

FWIW, rather than having a real compost pile last year, I was just throwing my kitchen waste in an unused spot in the garden patch. (Grass clippings and autumn leaves went in a separate pile to use as mulch.) I tilled in a couple of those corn oil-based salad bar containers, and haven't seen any scraps of plastic this year. Maybe it's just broken up into very small pieces and not actually biodegraded yet, but as long as they're nontoxic, I don't suppose it much matters.

Cornstarch packing peanuts are water soluble. I have plenty of the EPS ones to reuse (plus I didn't want to leave any potential mouse food around the house), so I just threw the starch peanuts on the pile and they soaked into the ground with the first rain.

[jesvetmed]

Oakleaf: That is great to know! We rent this place so no current compost / mulch piling going on. But when we get the new house... (she says dreamily).

[Blueberry]

I haven't searched all over...but is there a concensus on a good hot beverage mug that fits into a standard water bottle cage? I know about the Nissan hiker mug, but that has a straw (which I don't think I want with hot stuff). Other ideas??

I've been looking envoiusly at some of the lunch kits on the reusable bag sites. Bento kits and the like. Very cool - more veggies would probably be consumed Might be worth it

CA

[sgtiger]

CA_in_NC - Nissan Thermos Backpack vacuum bottle model JMV-500 will fit in a water bottle cage. Mine fitted a bit loosely so I was experiencing some rattling. I picked up a Topeak adjustable cage to fix that, but someone(Eden?) else mentioned on another thread that she just bent her cage.

Here are a couple of places online that carry it:
http://sweetmarias.com/prod.travelmugs-bottles.shtml
http://www.amazon.com/Thermos-STAINL...875191&sr=8-11

I think I saw some at the local Target, too.