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Snack Ideas for Reducing Plastic Waste
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Snack Ideas for Reducing Plastic Waste

Green Home, Reducing Waste, sustainability

Snack Ideas for Reducing Plastic Waste

By Holly Lee|2019-03-14T14:37:16+00:00March 14, 2019|Green Home, Reducing Waste, sustainability|

This post contains affiliate links which means I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you if you make a purchase after clicking one of my links. Almost 40{9994046f29331ee04cc0b5e07eb28364315ea03ccc2f01b5a43e8b85b372d1e9} of the plastic created each year is for the packaging of single-use products. That means that the majority of this is used just once and then tossed away. It's easy not to think that it makes much of a difference. If you have the privilege of not living close to a landfill, it's easy to pretend that your garbage doesn't have any impact. Right now, my community is [...]

Reducing Plastic and Waste – Small Steps to a Cleaner World Part 1
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Reducing Plastic and Waste – Small Steps to a Cleaner World Part 1

Green Home, Minimalism, Reducing Waste

Reducing Plastic and Waste – Small Steps to a Cleaner World Part 1

By Holly Lee|2020-02-29T19:18:23+00:00November 1, 2018|Green Home, Minimalism, Reducing Waste|

While we have known how detrimental excess plastic is for the environment for quite some time now, the average person is only just recently starting to see how serious the problem is. From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (an area in the ocean spanning about 600,000 square miles that is saturated with small pieces of plastic that pose a great danger to marine life) to plastic mounds found all over the earth (plastic has been found everywhere from Antarctica to Mt. Everest), we have a bit of a problem on our hands. Reducing plastic and waste isn't a simple [...]