In this Sunday afternoon video, sporting my 'about-to-clean-the-house' look, I experiment with making my first ever bottle of Blueland cleaner tabs (just add water!). I investigate what the packaging is made of, review environmental claims on the packaging itself, and what I think is the best way to dispose of it.
Read MoreIn this video, we get out our flashlights to do some sleuthing around the topic of blister packs, and how to dispose of them. Weird name, right? You'll know them when you see them - blister packs are the packaging that stick stuff you buy to pieces of marketing cardboard using a thin layer of plastic, like pens and mascara and batteries. Tough as old boots to take apart, they require a trick before they're (partially) recyclable.
Read MoreIn my latest packaging adventure tale, I discuss the many ways in which the packaging industry and its attendant supply chain is in a proper snit right now - from forest fires to handle-less handle bags, we've some chaos on our hands. As per usual -- the Georgette team will persevere!
Read MoreThis evening, I apprehend a paper-ish takeout box lurking on my kitchen counter. It proves more complex than appearances would leave the unsuspecting salad-eater to believe... Find out what happens next, and how to properly dispose of these confusing contraptions!
Read MorePart packaging dissection demo, part rant, this episode focuses on all the bits and bobs found in your bathrooms drawers, and what of it can be recycled (the answer: not much). Most of it is plastic and a lot of it is confusing. We navigate it together, occasionally successfully.
Read MoreIn this latest, highly cathartic short film, I deal with some corrugated boxes that arrived in the mail swaddled in tape. Scientifically dubbed “tape-y boxes”, these are not meant to be tucked hopefully into your blue bin. Also in this film: we make a tape ball, and practice our throwing technique. You get a peep at my office!
Read MoreIn this Friday special (which means pizza night at our colleague Elicia’s house), I awkwardly tear up a pizza box, and then reveal where its various components should go post-pizza. I get covered in cornmeal, and seriously question my decision to film this in a carpeted room. You’ll also learn what my favourite pizza toppings are! Useful in case you feel like popping by with a pizza! 😏🍍
Read MoreIt turns out a lot of packaging is made of steel, like navy bean cans and unattractive cookie tins, mason jar lids and bottle caps. Most of this packaging won't tell you it's recyclable --- but it is in fact all very, very easy (and important) to recycle. Get this stuff into your blue bin!
Read MoreIn this billowy episode, we finally get a visual on carbon dioxide. What does it look like? Potatoes, it turns out. We try to imagine our own carbon footprint, as Canadians and as global citizens. I later ponder what to do with my cooler full of dry ice; nobody takes me up on the offer to spend Friday night doing science experiments with it. I consider making a dry ice smoothie the next morning. The end! :)
Read MoreIn this eye-wateringly choppy episode, I make a late evening attempt to explain away some of the confusion around compostable plastics. They are tricky! I get lost in my own explanations. I pine for better props. I missed an interesting phone call this morning while hell-bent on wrapping up editing - in short, almost as messy as disposing of compostable plastics. Still, I think you'll learn something new! More on this pedagogically bewildering topic to come. ;D
Read MoreCozied up at the office pre-dawn, I attempt to take apart a double wall coffee cup and determine what it's made of -- and how one might recycle it. The cup resists. I eventually triumph. Join me on this emotional rollercoaster of intrepid scientific discovery.
Thank you to Danielle from Retrograde Roasters in California for suggesting the topic! :D
In this upbeat, sunlit episode, we discover the 'Industry Standard Beer Bottle' - a fine creation of the Province of Ontario. We discuss refillable beer bottles, and consider the future of packaging. I make a lot of unnecessary racket by leaning on my microphone.
Read MoreIn this latest episode, we embark on a truly Canadian adventure – one involving donuts, the blue bin (a Kitchener, Ontario invention), and looking out for the forestry industry. We tear things up. We consider our recycling sorting habits on a dusky, twilit Ontario morning. My hair behaves itself.
Read MoreIn this demure mid-autumn video (long overdue, for various reasons I won't bore you with), I demonstrate that some apparently cardboard packaging is actually covered in a thin coating of plastic - one only detectable by highly trained packaging sleuths. This makes it tricky to recycle.
Other items of note: my wardrobe (and hairdo) sobers up, and I tell you what happens at my house on Wednesday nights.
A COVID-favourite, toilet paper has been on our minds this year. In this garden shed-based video, I review the more environmentally mysterious aspects of toilet paper and its first cousin, paper towel.
Join me in this bout of profound investigative reporting. Paper goods provided by my mom and dad.
In my latest suspenseful episode, I discuss the importance of recycling aluminum foil and cans. Here's one material we can really recycle -- and it's worth it.
Read MoreArmed with just a few paper cups and a fashionable oven mitt, I finally embark on telling the true story of Starbucks and Tim Horton’s coffee cups, and where they go when we’re done with them. Filmed in my room, which was recently painted a fairly aggressive shade of yellow.
Read MoreOnce again I master the art of staying on topic, and attempt to give a packaging review of Starbucks' coffee cups. I end up only discussing the lids - not the rest of the cup. Join me in exploring the strange world of plastics recycling.
Amateur performance and technical work all credited to Sarah Landstreet.
