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No Impact Week: Trash
green | October 18th, 2009 - 12:00 PM
HuffPost’s No Impact Week looks into finding out ‘if wasting less improves your life’. If you haven’t joined their No Impact Week, then try a few of their goals anyway.
Monday of No Impact week: Consider all trash cans off limits.
‘When Colin began his experiment he stockpiled his family’s trash for a week to figure out what disposable items they could stop consuming and throwing away without sacrificing their happiness or comfort. After giving up
all disposable products, their level of happiness and satisfaction actually increased. Intrigued?’
Steps:
- Empty your special trash bag from yesterday. Separate the items into two piles: stuff that you used for more than ten minutes, and stuff you used for less than ten minutes. How does this make you feel? (Now put everything back in the bag and put it aside for the week.)
- Put together a no-trash travel kit for the week with a reusable drinking receptacle for hot and cold liquids, a handkerchief/old t-shirt, Tupperware®, utensils, and reusable produce bags.
- Stop making trash. Reduce it. Reuse it. Recycle it. Just don’t throw it away. Keep a special bag at home or the office to collect trash you make by mistake or necessity throughout the week.
Ideas for change:
Food Shopping:
- At the grocery store (or farmers’ market), use the bulk bins and bring your own old produce bags, pre-weighed containers, or cloth bags.
- Carry everything out in reusable bags from home and don’t take a receipt (or use it over again for lists/scrap paper). unless required for tax purposes, etc
- Steer clear of goods that come in a box, wrapper, throw-away bag, plastic container, tin can: you get the idea!
Eating:
- Travel with reusable cutlery, a handkerchief, and a resealable bag or Mason jar (all handy for eating on the run).
- Say goodbye to delivery and hello to potlucks with friends.
- Cereal lovers – buying in bulk reduces your waste. If you can’t buy in bulk, then re-use the wax-lined bags in cereal boxes to wrap sandwiches, or as trash bags.
Celebrating:
- Consider gifts that don’t come wrapped in lots of packaging that will end up in the trash. Give experiences, such as massages (who doesn’t love a back rub?) and local “adventures” like museums, movies, and dance or rock-climbing lessons.
- Re-gifting is good for your wallet and the planet.
- Find fun trash-free alternatives to wrapping paper.
Cleaning:
- Rid your life of paper towels. Cut up and reuse old clothes for napkins, diapers, cleaning rags, dishtowels, and even for blowing your nose.
- Women: Instead of toxic and landfill-clogging tampons and pads, check out a DivaCup or The Keeper®.
- Trade in your throw-away or refillable plastic razors for a straight razor.
- To avoid packaging waste, try out one of the many alternatives for soap, deodorant, and laundry detergent such as vinegar, baking soda, natural deodorant stones, shaving soap, and soapnuts.
Working:
- Forget Post-Its®. Use scrap paper, junk mail, and dry erase boards to take notes.
- If your office doesn’t recycle, bring your recyclables home with you or start an office recycling program.
- Stop printing or print double-sided.
- Lobby your office to replace disposable cups with reusable glass mugs.
thanks to Huffpost for sharing their ideas: check out their website.
If you haven’t signed up for No Impact Week, you can do so here.
They are asking people to sign up so they can communicate with you about the week and as one way for you to share your experiences with HuffPost.
HuffPost are also be inviting you to send in photos, videos and blogs to be featured on HuffPost Green.
You can also keep the conversation going on Twitter by using the hashtag #nipweek and following @noimpactgroup.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/the-no-impact-week-guide_n_317277.html
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