I pack a lunch each day for my son, and I pack it in a recycled ice cream container I pinched out of a friend's recycling! It's lasted for months, no need to buy something new! The box goes into plastic bags to prevent leakage in his school bag, but those are recycled over and over, and the elastic bands I hold the whole lot together with are picked up from where the postman drops them. Doing my bit for reducing litter as well as recycling ;)