What ideas do you have to help change the "throw-away" culture?-- I usually go to Starbucks and they have this deal where you purchase their $2 plastic re-usable Starbacks logo'ed cup, and every time you come in to get a medium coffee (of any type-even mochas) they take off $0.10... However, the Starbucks coffee shop in the Kahler actually has a better deal for some reason doing with that it isn't a fully owned Starbucks shop. When you buy a medium mocha, they run it in as a small mocha. So you save even more money by using this re-usable cup!

That being said, to entice people to not join in the "throw away" culture, you have to give them a good monetary deal to convince them. Deal being the key word here. I am not sure how one convinces others to care more for the environment, besides either by making some economical deal or actually physically bringing such people to a landfill or other such examples that include harm to our Earth or the animals of our Earth. Encouraging others to change for the better of the world is a simple idea, but not an easy one.