Brad Bordessa
Well-known member
I don't know how significant something like not buying ukulele strings is in light of everything else we do.
I have to agree. It's much easier to reduce/avoid in other areas where the volume of plastic is greater.
But we can, as buyers, vote with our money and write letters to insist on paper packaging for little things like strings. Then you can, at least, compost the envelopes in your back yard. There is no practical reason for carbon strings to be sealed that I've ever heard. I believe Joel at UkeLogic has shifted to full-paper packaging for this reason. These small moves may not make as much of a global impact, but they increase awareness by permeating all aspects of life.
Recently I've been stuffing plastic bottles with clean trash to create "bottle bricks." https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-to-bottle-brick Some folks build structures with them, but to me it's less about that and more about greatly reducing volume in the landfill. You could stuff a lifetime of uke strings into a big vinegar bottle. This is a great visual demonstration of the trash you use since you have to spend time pushing each piece into the bottle. Really humbling. Strings are not even a top 100 item.