American College of Healthcare Sciences

One of the ways I have always helped to reduce use of plastic is following the three Rs, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Though now a days the recycle portion does not really occur, or is very limited where one can recycle their plastics.  So the first two Rs are important. I always will reuse my plastic bread bags, sandwich bags, freezer bags, etc....

July is over, but/and our work is not! For anyone that hasn't seen the Story of Plastic yet, check it out and consider hosting a virtual screening (free!): https://www.storyofplastic.org/  There are some great educational resources to accompany the film: https://algalita.org/story-of-plastic/

I wouldn’t say it was difficult but eye opening. I never realized how much plastic we use every day. I made some permanent changes since the challenge began but have a long way to go. What did make it challenging to make easy changes was the inability to take your own bags to the grocery store due to COVID. I will keep trying to improve each...

This is last day of the Challenge, and until today I wasn't sure how to answer this question. But I watched The Story of Plastic this morning and I was very moved by it. I can see now that the reduction of plastic packaging, and moving away from plastic manufacturing in a big way, has become a matter of life or death for us all. I will watch...

I wasn't very surprised, but I do feel bad about ordering takeout in plastic. I have definitely been doing this more during COVID. My goal is to work on ordering takeout only from places that use sustainable takeout packaging. I have also been working on replacing lotion and shampoo containers with ones with more sustainable packaging as I run...

I did not have time to post daily, but all month I did not send any plastics to the landfills. Nor did I buy any plastic items or anything packaged in plastic (though I did use my recyclable 'everfresh green veggie bags' when buying veggies at the farm markets.