You Might Be an Eco Chick If…..

…….you have so many tote bags that you end up giving the person at the checkout line behind you a couple to keep them from plastic-bagging it. You think that maybe some free reusable bags is all that it will take to convert them.

…….you get crazy dehydrated because you REFUSE to buy water in a plastic bottle and you forgot your Sigg at home. Then you get really mad because the public water fountain seems like an endangered species.

……..you decide to paint your wood floors (hey, it’s trendy at least) because you can’t deal with the refinishing chemicals being in your bedroom, using no-VOC paint of course.

…….you carry around your old cell phone in your bag for weeks because you just KNOW you’ll eventually come across a place to recycle it (and you do)!

plastic bags, plastic bottles, Recycling

Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

6 Comments on “You Might Be an Eco Chick If…..”

Stephanie

So true! I have 8 reusable bags and my husband keeps 2 in the car at all times. I still have my BPA-free Camelbak bottle though – haven’t gotten a Sigg yet!

07/03/08 » 7:07 am »
emily

3 out of 4 of those things are true for me, and i find myself doing much wierder things as well. One of the more hilarious ones: saving freshly made tortilla chips from Mexican restaurants by putting them directly into my bag. I never have spare containers on me, and i figure the waitstaff would not be too psyched if i ask for a to-go container for their FREE chips, it’d be one thing if it was my meal. only take this tip if you don’t mind grease stains!!

07/03/08 » 7:40 am »
Erin

Hahaha… ya that sounds like me <3

07/03/08 » 8:09 am »
Starre

Yeah, it’s true, I’ve actually done ALL these things recently! (Well, the painting of the floor instead of refinishing is a work-in-progress.) Sometimes I think I am such an eco- dork, so it makes me feel better when others say they do similar stuff!

07/03/08 » 8:06 pm »
grechen

lol, i do the second sometimes – but i hardly ever forget my SIGG

07/07/08 » 11:18 am »
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