Avoid plastic food containers for better health | Bottle Ink

Jeff Newsom, CCO of ELOPDAT Venture Investment Group, organized this pop-up event around the theme of Valentine’s Day, featuring small businesses which offer goods that can make great gifts for that special someone, many with a special twist.

But there are certain situations where plastics are unavoidable. Try having a medical procedure without using a plastic syringe or an intravenous drip bag. Plastic water bottles can be indispensable after natural disasters.

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While other brands have jumped on the stylish water bottle bandwagon, the next status bottle is not so status-y at all. Like fanny packs and Carhartt beanies, utilitarian Nalgene bottles — an old favorite of hikers and outdoorsy folk — are seeping into the ranks of the fashionable.

“That is so bright!” Julia Norton, an artist who teaches a pigment class, said, examining the pokeweed’s fuchsia stems.

Husband and wife team Ciarán Smyth and Íde Mhic Gabhann have gone into business with Naomi Sheridan in her health-food shop, Noms, in Phibsborough, on Dublin’s northside. They started out selling packaging-free food on a stall in Bushey Park Market. Business has been good in the new shop and they’ve also had a run on their shampoo bars. Their packaging-free food best sellers are pasta, cashews and red lentils. They hope people living further away could set up buyers’ clubs, order in bulk online and collect packaging free supplies from the shop every few months. Even in small amounts, buying without packaging can be the same price or cheaper, Smyth says. Since he started sourcing spices like star anise in larger bags and selling them by weight he can see the steepness of the markup on the much smaller packaged portions.

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Short in stature but mighty with light, votives are smokeless and burn for up to eight hours. Drop them in a votive holder of your choice—metallics, patterns, and warm colors give off a light shadow when alight—and place them around a room for romantic mood lighting.

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In bygone days, most Brits’ concept of self-care extended to punctuating their pints at the pub with the occasional glass of water, or bag of chips. Drawing on global influences that span from Australia to America’s West Coast, a new wave of spas and workout studios in London is sparking a sea change in behaviors. (In the village-y enclaves of Chelsea and Hampstead, for example, heading out to lunch in your active wear is now normal.) The city’s burgeoning health-conscious cafe scene, meanwhile, is slowly shifting perceptions of English food culture from “beige” to “green.” That’s not to say that the word “wellness” won’t still elicit eye rolls in certain quarters — London will, thankfully, never be L.A. — but progressive city dwellers have, over the last five years, been embracing that culture in a totally unprecedented way. So, whether you’re in need of salve for the body or the soul, or simply looking to stock up your larder, here’s our guide to the best health offerings to be had in the British capital.

Designers have embraced plastic free as a new challenge, whether it’s building a supermarket aisle without plastic or making eco-friendly clothing that does not involve virgin plastic. Celebrities including Jeff Bridges and SZA have joined the anti-plastic crusade. And there are many, many blogs and books that offer primers.

Last week in San Francisco, a small group assembled for lunch at Perbacco Ristorante and Bar on California Street, between Front and Battery, to celebrate the 30th harvest of that olive oil, Laudemio Frescobaldi.