A birthday surprise for one of my colleagues at iRobot made for a nice afternoon break today. Nicolai will be pleased to learn that I brought my own recycled fork and dish (I have been washing them after each use) to the party. While at the Mountain film festival we saw a movie called Bag It that impacted us deeply.

Plastics are made from petroleum which took 70 million years to create. There is a finite and dwindling supply of it. We make it into a fork (or bottle or bag) that will be used for a few minutes and then discard it into our environment where it will take one hundred years to breakdown. The logic here is just so flawed. Please think about ways you can reduce your use of plastic for the sake of our planet.