Category: Single Use Plastics
A Youth’s Approach to a Plastic-Free Day
In honor of Plastic Free July, I decided to attempt to go plastic-free for a day. What this looked like for me was attempting to reduce or eliminate single-use plastics, as well as plastics that I would throw away eventually once I was done with a product. I’m a teenager, so my [...]
Legislation For You To Watch!
Let me warn you that this is my first blog writing ever in my 49 years so I might ramble a bit! As one of the Toward Zero Waste Community Directors in Raleigh, I agreed to research and present the current North Carolina House and Senate bills that concentrated on plastics for our July 25th [...]
College – how to be a waste-conscious student
College brings change, and with the changes to classes and scenery also comes a change in living and learning how to care for yourself. Living in dorms, joining a food plan, and flexible classes and schedules, are all day-to-day changes that will have a big impact on your life in college. You may have been [...]
Spoon-feeding Restaurants the Answers to the Global Waste Crisis
This post originally appeared on Medium. Single-Use plastic cutlery collection in front of Green4Life in Cary, NC. Individuals and organizations around the world are creating campaigns telling restaurants and delivery platforms people do not use, nor want, these take-out “extras.” Habits of [...]
Changing Habits: Skipping Straws And Embarrassing My Kids
By: Patty Cervenka of Greenish Neighbor Originally published on Greenish Neighbor My family loves to eat out. There are a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that I would be very content if I never again had to cook another meal in my kitchen. Selecting meals for my [...]
