Save the Planet While you Travel, with Lunch Boxes made from Rice Husks!
If you could reduce your environmental impact as a traveller, or at home, simply by investing in a small number of high-quality products - such as lunch boxes, food containers, insulated food jars, thermos cups, and re-useable cutlery sets - would you do it?
One of the biggest realizations I’ve had since I started travelling the world, is that I have just as much potential to be wasteful on the road as I do when I’m living in one place. Probably even more so.
Consider something as simple as a drink of water; at home you would pick up a glass and fill it with water from the sink or the fridge dispenser. When on the move it’s very easy to forget the environmental implications and just buy a bottle of water from a store or a guy at the side of the road.
Likewise, when your long-distance bus stops at the side of the road, what kind of packaging does your food come in? In most cases it’s those cheap, “disposable” styrofoam food trays and cups.
We may do this everyday of our lives, or perhaps only several times a month, but we have to accept that the effect is cumulative when considering all the other people in the world doing the same.
Kach and I love finding new environmental-conscious products that help to reduce the use the single-use plastics and other “disposable” items.
Even more exciting are new products that utilise alternatives to plastics altogether, like the new range of natural fibre bento boxes and lunch boxes from Minimal.
What is different about Minimal Natural Fibre Bento Boxes
Food containers made from natural fibres are not a new innovation, many people have been coming up solutions over the past several years.
What seems to be different about the Minimal Natural Fibre Bento Boxes is that they retain all of the durability and functionality of their 100% plastic cousins. They claim to be , “Eco-friendly, naturally compostable, sustainable,” all while still being, “Microwave and dishwasher safe!”
Of course, I am intrigued to know more about how these material properties are achieved, in particular how the recycled rice husks are bound together into a water, heat and microwave resistant structure and yet remain compostable... Indeed, if it’s possible for Minimal to achieve this sustainably, then more companies should be following their example.
Other Environmentally Conscious Products from Minimal
Insulated Food Jars
It’s not easy taking your lunch or other food on the go with you and somehow keeping it hot at the same time. Thermos flasks tend to be designed for hot and cold drinks, making them generally unsuitable for food.
Insulated Food Jars from Minimal are made from high-quality stainless steel, are vacuum insulated and have wide openings so that they can be used as a deep bowl. The dome-shaped lid unscrews to become a soup bowl, with a folding stainless steel spoon inside.
The stainless steel construction should allow the jars to last for years, making them a serious alternative to the polluting single use products.
Minimal Lunch Bag
To carry all of your environmentally conscious food containers around, you’re going to need an equally eco-friendly bag! Minimal Lunch bags are made from a product called Eco Felt, which looks and feels just like felt, but it is made from 100% recycled materials and zero animal products!
Minimal Stainless Steel Water Flasks
If you’re looking for a truly durable alternative to plastic bottles then you really only have two choices; glass or stainless steel. Glass is just too fragile to be able to carry it everywhere, so a high quality stainless steel water bottle is the best option available.
You could go for a traditional waterskin bag made from a sheep or cow bladder, but then vegans might shout at you in the street!
Minimal stainless steel water flasks are double-walled and insulated and have a condensation-free surface so they won’t get your bag all damp!
If you don’t throw it at a rock, there’s no reason one of these flasks wouldn’t live as long as you will. Consider how many less plastic bottles that would equate to in only one year, let alone your entire life!
You can check out the entire range of Minimal products on their website!
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