Kitchen - basics:

• Trash Bags
  • **Ecover's biodegradable trash bags
    I don't have a compost pile, so I haven't had the chance to see Ecover's bags actually biodegrade, but I see no reason why they wouldn't (they're made by suspending the plastic in a matrix of carbohydrates that can break down, by Ecover's description.)
  • **Seventh Generation's recycled plastic trash bags
    30post/70pre.
• Paper towels - Seventh Generation recycled paper
  If you must use paper towels.
• **Dish detergent (for dishwasher) - Ecover dishwashing powder.
• Dish soap -
• **Veggie Wash - Veggie Wash
  Natural, food-grade, partially citrus-based cleaner for cleaning waxes, pesticides, germs off of produce. I like it for that purpose. But it ALSO makes a wonderful ant-spray! It leaches the water right out of their bodies. They twitch a little and then they die. Faster and more effective than many neurotoxin bug-sprays, or so I hear (having never used such products).
• Kitchen towel - Colorgrown Organic cotton $6. If you want a set of three (one of each color--natural, green, and that pretty desert brown), buy them at Greenfeet for $15.25 and save about $3 (but I haven't compared shipping costs, so maybe not).
• Organic Cotton string bags - Ecobags - 4/$32 2 tote, 2 shoulder. (that's $8/ea). here they're 7.25ea.