Plastic Free Jax

Harvested some additional browse from our courtyard too: gopher tortoises love Virginia creeper!

I'll be tracking which days of the week I personally fed out to our living collection with foods that were bought in bulk/did not use plastic (with a couple exceptions on Tuesdays as the bulk buying of bugs necessitates containers- so these will only be added if containers were put into our spare bowls pile).

Bulk donated produce this week too!

Thursday= protein day. This day we use meat items, like fish or shrimp (bought in bulk).

Tuesday= protein day- we do buy some of our bugs in plastic container but we reuse those containers!!

I suppose I should include our animal collection on this- we prep their food daily from bulk products (bought from Fisherman's Dock or donated from Eartha's Farm and Market.

Saves money and makes us a good example for the community to be supplying reusable dishware during events as it shows we are putting our words into action.

Requested to be able to purchase reusable dishware for Tonca's birthday to help cut-down on our waste (since normally it is plastic and styrofoam dishware.

I wanted to share this with everyone: Chitin: The Alternative to Plastic (speakupforblue.com) I remember in 2018 when chitin was floated as a biodegradable alternative to plastic- but it was too hard to isolate from the seafood waste. Apparently, there has been a tech change and now that process is much easier (and still biodegradable). If this...

Take-out containers are most of my garbage. Apparently, I'm pretty good at limiting my waste outside of this area. I had more Styrofoam than expected too.