If you get takeout a couple of times a week for lunch or dinner, bad news: You're probably going through a couple hundred plastic utensils per year. Because most people don't wash and re-use plastic utensils, even though we technically could, they go right into the trash alongside the billions of pounds of waste that end up annually in landfills. Stop the disposable craziness already by making one simple, economical, couldn't-be-easier change: Just stash this re-useable organic bamboo utensil set in your desk drawer, and use it instead. Each set comes with chopsticks as well as a full western flatware set, and stores in a handy woven case, produced by a women's cooperative on the border of Thailand and Burma. $19.95 at
EConsciousMarket.com.