Save the planet! Eat Three Sisters and Nature's Path Bagged Cereal!
Posted on 10:30 AM by Elisa
"Ditch the box and save a tree. Made using renewable energy"
There are many ways to help the planet and some are harder than others. Switching to bagged cereal, like Three Sisters Cereal, is one of the easiest things you can do and it tastes delicious, plus it will save you money over name brand cereal.
Here is a list of all the reasons that you should consider trying Three Sisters Cereal:
1) Buying bagged cereal eliminates the cardboard box, which is wasteful. By buying bagged cereal you are saving trees and keeping the boxes out of landfills. Unfortunately, most cardboard boxes and mixed paper recycled by individuals is not recycled because the demand for recycled paper is low and most cereal boxes are designed in such a way that they are difficult to recycle because of the printing process.
2) Three Sisters cereal is bagged in food-safe, recyclable bags! So just toss the bag in the recycling instead of the trash!
3) Three Sisters Cereal uses renewable energy to manufacture their cereals.
4) Their cereal is sugary and they have variety!
Varieties include:
Three Sisters Cereal is available at Whole Foods.
Of course, even more environmentally friendly and economic than buying Three Sisters Cereal is shopping in the bulk section and reusing your own plastic bags. But if you're in a rush or for some reason don't like the bulk section or your local store doesn't have one then Three Sisters Cereal is a great alternative. If your local store doesn't yet carry it then put in a request.
Three Sisters cereals are a little too sweet for me to have everyday, so I also enjoy "Nature's Path Organic Heritage Flakes," which have just a hint of sweetness and are low in sugar and have plenty of fiber. I actually prefer Nature's Path because their cereals are organic.
Like Three Sisters Cereal, Nature's Path makes its bags from recyclable plastics. Nature's path estimates the savings from buying their bagged cereals as follows:
- Paper Board Saved: 437 tons per year
- Total Energy Saved: 7,464 million BTUs
- Green House Gases Saved: 1,389,323 lbs CO2
- Wastewater Saved: 826,542 gallons
- Solid Waste Diverted: 248,383 pounds
Their source quotes is: http://www.edf.org/papercalculator/
For most of us, these calculations are just really big numbers, but we don't really understand what they translate into, so let me try to provide some context.
Let's assume that the average american drives 12,000 miles per year and their car averages 20 mpg. This means that each year, the average american car produces 12,253 pounds of CO2 emissions per year.
Using this carbon footprint calculator, we can estimate the average CO2 emissions of a car:
http://www.greenprogress.com/carbon_footprint_calculator.php
So Nature's Path saving 1,389,323 lbs of CO2 per year is equivalent of keeping
1,389,323/12,253 = 113 cars off of the road per year!
Think about all the effort that it would take you to completely stop driving your car - buying bagged cereal is a very easy and economical way for you to decrease your carbon footprint. So tell your friends about the benefits of eating bagged cereal because the more people who do it, the less waste we'll have and the better the planet will look for our children.
Also, if you click on any of the amazon links, please realize that the price in stores is a fraction of the price on amazon - it costs less that $5 in stores for a 32 oz. bag. I once compared the bagged cereal per oz. to all the boxed cereals and the bagged cereal won every time. It makes sense - if they don't have to waste money on the box then they can afford to save you some money on the cereal!
- Paper Board Saved: 437 tons per year
- Total Energy Saved: 7,464 million BTUs
- Green House Gases Saved: 1,389,323 lbs CO2
- Wastewater Saved: 826,542 gallons
- Solid Waste Diverted: 248,383 pounds
Their source quotes is: http://www.edf.org/papercalculator/
For most of us, these calculations are just really big numbers, but we don't really understand what they translate into, so let me try to provide some context.
Let's assume that the average american drives 12,000 miles per year and their car averages 20 mpg. This means that each year, the average american car produces 12,253 pounds of CO2 emissions per year.
Using this carbon footprint calculator, we can estimate the average CO2 emissions of a car:
http://www.greenprogress.com/carbon_footprint_calculator.php
So Nature's Path saving 1,389,323 lbs of CO2 per year is equivalent of keeping
1,389,323/12,253 = 113 cars off of the road per year!
Think about all the effort that it would take you to completely stop driving your car - buying bagged cereal is a very easy and economical way for you to decrease your carbon footprint. So tell your friends about the benefits of eating bagged cereal because the more people who do it, the less waste we'll have and the better the planet will look for our children.
Also, if you click on any of the amazon links, please realize that the price in stores is a fraction of the price on amazon - it costs less that $5 in stores for a 32 oz. bag. I once compared the bagged cereal per oz. to all the boxed cereals and the bagged cereal won every time. It makes sense - if they don't have to waste money on the box then they can afford to save you some money on the cereal!
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