So, this easy change suggestion is simple -- get a container you'll want to use, and use it when you go out, consistently, until it feels weird NOT to. [photo | LRS]
Tag: eco friendly
Bloody Hell
Plastic tampon applicators are completely unnecessary. There are plenty of alternatives. And yet they are ubiquitous. Store shelves are lined with them and the personal product companies have convinced the masses that they are the best, practically the only, option. [photo | Josefin]
Call It a Landfill Bin
Call it the landfill bin. Calling it anything else allows us to indulge in the harmful fantasy that the waste we produce goes away once it leaves our hands. [photo | Shane Rounce]
Get Behind Bars
In our private homes, there's no compelling reason -- beyond convenience and perhaps aesthetic preferences -- to continue with liquid soap when bar soap is better for the environment. [photo | Dan Smedley]
Return Wrappers & Bags
If you're looking for an easy change you can make in your everyday life, one of the simplest but most important is (1) refusing and (2) recycling plastic bags and other plastic film products. [photo | Trex.com]
Rethinking the Three Rs
What too many of us have grown up believing (or at least wanting to believe) is that the three components of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle are all equally helpful and beneficial to the environment. And far, far too many of us have put the bulk of our trust in the RECYCLE part of this misleading triumvirate. [photo | John Cameron]
Get It For Here
One super easy change we can all make on a regular basis is to ask for our orders in a "for here" container as often as possible. [photo | Aaron Spicer]