Category: Monthly Plastic Free Challenge
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Chickpeas – Your Plastic Free Ally for Lunches
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For this month’s challenge, I’m trying to find plastic-free protein replacements for deli meats. Something that I can make ahead of time and can be quickly assembled for a handheld meal. When going over my options, I realized that chickpeas, aka garbanzo beans, would be my new plastic free ally for this…
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On the Look Out For Zero-Waste Food: Peanut Butter
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With this month’s challenge being to cut down on plastics from deli meats and cheeses, I’m going to have to rely more on plant protein alternatives. One of those alternatives is, you guessed it, peanut butter! I love peanut butter but this advice applies to any nut butter. I know I can get plastic-free peanut…
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How to reduce plastics from deli meat and cheese
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My goal this month is to figure out how to reduce plastics from deli meat and cheeses. Going plastic-free with this challenge would be preferable, but I don’t know if that’s realistic. Because so far, the advice I’ve found for this topic hasn’t really been working. I’ve read about people…
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Next Steps For Better Habits For a Better Planet
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I’ll be honest, it annoys me a little bit when I’m trying to find advice for eco-friendly living but all I get are quick tip snippets. And I realize it’s because eco-friendly living is about changing to better habits. And changing one’s habits is actually a multistep process. Don’t get…
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What to Expect from Sustainable Pursuits Monthly Plastic-Free Challenge
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I created Sustainable Pursuits monthly plastic-free challenge to help with my intentional living goal of cutting down on plastic dependency. I’ve already swapped out many of the plastics I use for their sustainable counterparts, but I wanted to dive deeper and focus on the items that aren’t so easy to…
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5 Eco-Friendly Challenges To Add To Your Calendar
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What are eco-friendly challenges? Eco-friendly challenges are a collective effort to raise awareness about environmental issues and to make a positive impact through individual change. Challenges can be run by official organizations, municipalities, or sustainable-living bloggers. However, for this article I’m just going to focus on the eco-friendly organizations. Eco-friendly…
