The little green choices do add up

We make choices all the time surrounding reduce, reuse, recycle, and sometimes these choices may seem extremely small but in reality they add up. With the landfills overfilling, oil being used to make lots of plastic, and trees being cut down to make paper reducing your use of products seems like a logical place to start.

Typical things people use every day that folks could get in a reduced form…

• Sticky notes – everyone has scrap mail or paper to take notes on.
• Single serve medication – so lame. In fact even blister packs of meds can be bought in bottles instead.
• Small single use cereal boxes.
• Cotton balls, make-up wipes, and other face swabbing items – use a soft wash cloth.
• Conventional cleaning wipes. Use cleaner and a cloth or recycled paper towel.
• Paper napkins – use cloth.
• Drinking straws – don’t get one the next time you go out to eat.
• Disposable paper plates – don’t use ever. Real dishes are better, cheaper, and less harmful to the planet. Same for disposable bathroom cups.
• Plastic wrap, foil, wax paper – all food can be cooked on a pan and stored in a container.
• Toss away coffee filters – get a reusable one.

How the small choices stack up. All of the above seem like super small choices, but if everyone in your neighborhood used one plastic drinking straw a day, how quick would a pile stack up. What about in the whole world? How tall would a pile of paper plates be if everyone in your own city used just two daily in a month? Miles high? Small choices do matter, so cut out the things that have reusable alternatives, or like drinking straws, cut them out just because they’re unnecessary.

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