Tag: Plastic free challenge
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Benefits of Drinking Local Milk – Are Glass Bottles Better?
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This month’s plastic-free focus is on milk, and milk alternatives. Among the different strategies to reduce plastics with milk, one of the best ways is to use milk that comes in glass bottles. From my experience, I’ve only been able to find milk in glass bottles that are from local…
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Want a Recipe for the Milk Challenge – Try Overnight Oats
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This month we’re working on reducing single-use plastics from milk and milk alternatives. The strategy I’m personally using is to make my own plant-based milks. Particularly my favorite milk alternative, hemp milk! I use it a lot to make my overnight oats. A relative recently gifted me their unused Nutr…
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Cut Down on Single-Use Plastics in the Kitchen: Milk Focus
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Every month I try to cut down on single-use plastics by focusing on one specific challenge category. This month’s focus is going to be on milk and plant-based milks. I like to do a month long challenge because it allows time to develop and try different strategies. My goal is…
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Want to Live Plastic-free? Here’s How to Shop Differently
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I mentioned in one of my previous articles how my shopping habits changed when I started to live plastic-free. These changes revolved around where and how I buy my necessities now. So I just wanted to give a heads up to anyone wanting to cut down on plastic that it…
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Going plastic-free? Here are some of the next steps
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Previously, we talked about the beginning steps on how to live plastic-free. For a lot of people who are going plastic-free, these beginning steps tend to be product swaps and reusable items. By that I mean swapping out products for their plastic-free alternatives and using reusable items like water bottles…
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How To Live Plastic-Free: Where To Begin?
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My personal plastic-free journey First, I’ll start with how I personally became interested in the plastic-free journey. To be honest, I didn’t start with any real eco friendly goals in mind or even by contemplating how to live plastic-free. It began from learning about alternatives to single-use plastics. At the…
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Reflecting on the Plastic-Free Challenges We Tried Last Year
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August of this year was when we officially started doing the monthly plastic-free challenges. We are now entering the 6th month of challenges and I thought this would be a good time to reflect on what we’ve learned so far, and how to move forward with our plastic-free goals. The…
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The Best Plastic-Free Presents Strategies for the Holidays
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With this month being the holiday season, this month’s challenge was to figure out how to find and give plastic-free presents. There were 3 strategies we used to help us meet this goal – shopping local, easy homemade gifts, and gift wrap alternatives. Now it’s time to reflect on how…
