Below is an example of a draft letter I wrote to one of our famous grocery store brand companies. Here goes my draft/test copy of my letter to the Wonderbread Company, Makers of D'Italiano Bread:
Thank you, D'Italiano, for making the BEST soft baked bread made of excellent ingredients in grocery stores across Unceded First Nations Territories colloquially and colonially known as Canada!
Just so you know, though plastic textile bags are temporarily beautiful for protecting the lovely D'ITALIANO Commercial Brand soft baked bread from moderate to heavy rains in cold seasons; rarely in warm seasons; in what is colonially and colloquially known as Vancouver, BC Canada; on Unceded Traditional Coast Salish Territories; where I currently live - I wonder if we can find less harmful alternatives to plastics?
I am trying for a 99.9% (rough estimate = “cc” = for “concept conveyance”) global ban on new plastics (just not on reused or recycled plastic products) with a plastics processing fee to sponsor plastic thermolysis as needed to clean the oceans of debris,, recycling only as needed and mitigating waste plastics. The plastics ban would help people in other parts of the world who are coping with plastic waste debris on our land and in our oceans that has been interfering with the beauty, the people, the creatures, and the ethno-geo-bio-eco-logical life systems that we are collectively trying to steward and protect - BECAUSE Earth's Natural Healthy Ecology and Healthy Biology and Wonderful Geology and Dynamic Physics and Surprising Chemistry IS FOR OUR HOME & HEARTH & FOR OUR HEALTH - ideally for EVERY BODY. Resources and Tools and Home-Building were understood with observations of THE TAO and Holy Spirit of Divine Teaching and Love in Mary2Mary Jesus2Joseph and so on, through CREATOR’s DIVINE INTERVENTION, EARTH’S Natural Resources were processed to produce our best and finest endurable homes & essential goods made from “the stuff of the earth”, but the Pyramids of Egypt, the remnants of Ancient buildings, though a part remains, never stays new forever unless….
Unless forever is meant to be
Simplicity and Elegance, known as Zen/Chan/Tien School of Buddhism (which may include understanding of “wabi sabi” as natural effects of living and progressing through time as we pursue our activities and understanding of daily life) GOD WANTS TO BE ALL GOOD and UNDERSTANDING and MERCIFUL for Good Healthy Living of All Creatures who live for moments of Blissful, Peaceful, Serene, Exuberant, Happy, EnJOYment of LIFE and LOVE thanks to Creator, Truth, Good Life, Good Spirits, Jesus/Yesu/Yasu/Essa/ Esja and Heaven’s Angels and our many good learners & teachers! There is a reason, season and purpose for everything on Earth and every Living Being in and of and under the Heavens'
The Blest Machine from Akinori Ito’s Inspiration and Understanding will help us convert plastic refuse into blended fuels, but only until such time a 99% ban on new plastics is achieved GLOBALLY. By then, and as we progress, Blest Machine might well be used only as needed and necessary to deal with the global pandemic of plastic waste to transform the remaining 1% plastic materials among all other materials used globally to make essential household goods (only a vague estimation for quick cc or “concon”) by turning it into blended fuel using the Blest Machine, along with many other plastic waste mitigation strategies that I hope will be truly sustainable. But! Before relying on Mr. Akinori Ito's Blest Machine, WE SHOULD reuse plastics until the end of their usefulness so that it can’t be used for anything other than recycling. For example, we can give our extra food containers and jars to bulk food refill stores, and also scissor plastic bread bags and other food grade textile packaging into useful shapes and sizes for wrapping and unwrapping foods placed or removed for/from storage in the kitchen or fridge or freezer or outdoor kitchen storage areas; remnants of unusable plastic bag scraps can be placed inside another clean used plastic bag for assembling “packaging cushions” - washed to cleanliness - for shipping and mailing. CLEAN stuff like bunched up crumpled paper, plastic wrappers, foil candy wrappers, foil plastic potato chip bags, and other lightweight flexible packaging materials may become lightly voluminous when balled up purposefully into a clean plastic bag used for storage until they can be used as shipping cushions for things like furniture and other items that need protection for safe ground or freight delivery.
Thank you for sharing and caring by making & distributing for purchase the D'ITALIANO BREAD from Wonder Bread - the best commercial brand of soft bread in Canada i have tasted so far! And I hope your business will prosper more as the zeitgeist is changing as people are searching for plastic free alternatives as excellent options in the food packaging protection industry!
Can your employees explore conceptual designs for non-plastic packaging for D’Italiano baked breads - for example, the finest option of "real, natural honey bees' wax food wrap", or "organic soya oil wax wrap" or " sunflower oil wax wrap" and all other hard wax-covered clean cloths used for biodegradable food grade packaging?
"Bast" fibre clean cloths dipped in food grade waxes like beeswax, made to wrap/unwrap or protect/uncover bread and other foods and food containers, can become structural with cold temperatures as it stiffens due the nature of wax in hot and cold. Is it possible, at least for a limited time, as a trial product run for Earth Day or as a test pilot project at an Environmental Sustainability Fair for Children. The challenge for the children would be to design a beeswax wrapper style and structure for the D'Italiano soft bread to be wrapped creatively and functionally and imaginatively in wax cloth wrap instead of plastic bags as a consumer/shoppers' kitchen demonstration and marketing project?
If plastic bags absolutely MUST be used, they can be cut into custom shapes and secured snuggly with a rubber band or string. ALL TOGETHER NOW for this beautiful gem of a planet Earth Creator Blessed for us to Steward and Protect For Each And Another and All In Togetherness' Understanding, Happiness and Joy.
CAVEAT: Sorry if there are any misleading errors in writing, speech, or ideas!
For Home and Land and For Our Food, We Thank You Creator God of the Universe For Your Awesome Love and Perfect Care As Exemplified By Jesus
And For Teachers of Compassion and Mercy - like Jesus and Guru Nanak; And Teacher of Moderation and Contrast of Opposites of Nature that find simple and sophisticated words to describe “The Dao” that Cannot Be Named (words sometimes fail to describe the full understanding of Creator God); like Guru Nanak, the Original Teacher of Sikhism who exemplified “Love others, be vigilant and pray to Creator of the Universe, and be good to your neighbour” And of course, Creator God Sent Creator’s Divine Holy Spirit of Goodness to all these Teachers so that through sending the Holy Spirit to Jesus, Mary & Joseph, we might, like them, also receive the gifts of God’s Divine Spirit in each and every one of ALL our hearts!
Sincerely,
Czarina Michelle Lim Carlos Gutierrez
#510 - 1601 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver
Unceded Traditional Coast Salish Territories
BC Canada V6J 0E2
Unceded First Nations Traditional Territories
PS - Comments and Ideas for Improvement will be heard or read, but I cannot guarantee that I will always follow everyone else's advice! Cheers!