Sustainbility Stewards

I've been successful in avoiding plastic bags while shopping for the most part. We have reduced the amount of plastic water bottles used at work, even though there are still managers who ask for them specifically when they aren't included for lunches and longer meetings.

Moving completely away from any plastic bottles has been much easier than I thought it would be.

Helping the pollinators is very important to me! I also share what is grown with my friends and neighbors. It's a win-win-win situation!

I stopped using plastic water bottles and only use tap and filtered water.

I buy ALL of my clothes second hand! Have been doing that for the last 30 years!

I have been, and will continue to use, rags that I can rinse out. I don't even have disposable wipes anywhere in my house!

Over the weekend I proved the "poor planning generates more waste" concept when I went to Target to buy some cat food and ended up buying three snack items (because I forgot to eat before I left to run errands) that all used plastic film packaging. I convinced myself that the outer boxboard packaging was the only packaging and...

I had planned on switching from a loofah to bar soap for body wash once I finished my bottle of body wash and the timing just happened to land during this challenge! I have noticed that I use less soap in general. I also use less water since I had to clean my loofah after using it to make sure it didn't get gross before my next use. I will...

We use stainless steel straws, and each family member has a metal or other reusable material water bottle. In addition, we us reusable containers to pack lunches and school snacks (instead of disposable plastic bags).

I gave away four boxes of books on a neighborhood Buy Nothing group! They were only posted for a few hours before someone claimed them, and were gone the same day.