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Reuse Plastic Wrap? Really?

The L&T Cheryl DeGroot
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For KNKX
This little piece of plastic has given its all.

I try to get any piece of aluminum foil,  paper towel or  parchment paper to give its all.  In this Food for Thought, I tell Nancy Leson how many uses I got from one piece of plastic wrap.  I was proud. 

She was disgusted.

It's not that I'm all that eco-conscious or even that I'm cheap (though I am).  I just can't see throwing something away that's still useful.  Take foil. If I've used a sheet and it's still clean (enough) I save it.  There's all kinds of stuff you can do with used foil.  

Same for paper towels.  If it's been used for mopping up plain water, I save it for a dirtier job next time.  When a small piece is all that's needed I tear off just that much.  The Hillbilly Housewife has even more ideas for re-using paper towels.  Nancy cleverly  saves the cardboard from used up paper towel rolls as a stash for washed ZipLocs.

Like me, Nancy's husband Mac re-uses paper towels.  Only difference being I store mine on the roll, he uses their little compost container.   And Nancy just loooooves her can collection.

Credit Nancy Leson / KNKX
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KNKX
Nancy's "can" do all the way.

In this episode I brag about the multiple uses I got from one piece of plastic wrap.  DeGroot gave me a major eye-roll on that one, but that just made it more fun.  

"Use it up, wear it out.  Make it do or do without."

Dick Stein joined KNKX in January 1992. He retired in 2020 after three decades on air. During his storied radio career, he hosted the morning jazz show, co-hosted and produced "Food for Thought" with Nancy Leson and wrote and directed the Jimmy Jazzoid live radio musical comedies and 100 episodes of Jazz Kitchen.