Caretakers

I was kind of MIA on this year's challenge. I will say it felt really good to get all the thin film plastic out of here (when Ridwell came for my first pick-up on the 24th). Plus they took a bunch of styrofoam packaging to be recycled, too. Yay!  I have been signing petitions, and donating to eco-friendly orgs, like the Nature Conservancy and...

Come on team...if everyone checks in today and does one action (the last day), we can pull ahead of the AUS/NZ team (on a per-person basis)!  It's already Aug 1 there, so we have the next 14 hours to crush them :)!

feeling like to need a quick way to earn some points before the end of the month (tomorrow)?, donate to the host organization to continue to fund initiatives to educate the public

It helps to wash and collect all the plastic packaging (which we have just started doing with our Ridwell subscription) and to extrapolate that to week-after-week and year-after-year and household-after-household. I think it will take demand from customers but mostly changes in policy to impact what we consider normal in packaging. Why, for...

Around 100 rail cars per day stacked with two sea crates each go to the Columbia ridge landfill every day. I think it said 300,000 tons per day. Mind boggling. More here on Seattle’s waste management. https://youtu.be/zLFrMI2I3W0

Watched Plastic Ocean. Learned about a few possible ‘solutions’ to the problem of single use plastic packaging and it seems like all of them are trading one problem for another. Some almost seems like they’re enabling continued production of SUP under the guise of being socially responsible. National Geographic had a nice article which shines a...