San Francisco, Day 6 of 14: (Correction) Tom’s of Maine COULDN’T do much better

Evan Cordes has brought to my attention that Tom's of Maine will take back the aluminum toothpaste tubes if your city will not recycle them (see comments below). I don't think that San Francisco will accept them; so, I guess I'm going to collect a bunch of them over the next few months and send them back to Maine!

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Tom's of Maine is a favorite brand amongst environmental do-gooders (like myself). You get the sense that everything they make is a lot more natural than all the products made by Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson.

However, I don't think there's much I can do with an empty tube of Tom's of Maine toothpaste. Natural or not, it's still destined for the landfill. There's some sort of recycling symbol on the back of the tube, but I have no idea what it means (see photo below).

I'll give $20 to anyone who can tell me what it means. I'm not kidding. $20 - it's just one Paypal payment away.

A trip to Peru

As I was peeling off the "Organic" sticker on my banana this morning (which is going to the landfill by the way ... ironic, isn't it?), I noticed yet another sticker on the bunch of bananas. It said "Visit our Farm at doleorganic.com ... FARM 003." The banana said "Peru" on it. So, I thought "hmm ... maybe I will."

http://doleorganic.com/farms/003/003.html

Not suprisingly, the site is very "green," literally. It's kind of cool though. You can see where the bananas come from and the people who work on the farm. Not bad. And the photo viewer is pretty nice as well. I digress.

Anyway, here's a list of what I landfilled/recycled/composted today.

Landfill

• My "I Voted!" sticker
• The two "Organic" banana stickers
• Tom's of Maine toothpaste tube

Recycling

• Miscellaneous voting papers

Compost

• Banana Peel
• Used napkins

Cheers,

Rob