City of Brooklyn Park

This has been an eye opener.  One was paying attention to the incredible amount of things that are now made of plastic or in plastic (or the company that put a plastic bottle in a plastic bag and shipped it in a box filled with plastic air pillow packing material.) and how hard it can be to shop and avoid plastic. There are things I never...

Challenge is going good.  Not too difficult to do a lot of the items. 

For friends, family, colleagues we have talked a lot about recycling, how we cannot recycle our way out of this, that only about 9% of recyclable items get recycled, that plastic breaks apart and ends up in the water and soil and from there in our bodies, about animals starving because they swallowed plastic and the large amount of floating...

Creating less waste should advocate for itself. 

The synthetic loofah was reusable and lasted a long time, so I never thought much about it, until I found out that little pieces break off and get into the water system and cannot be removed, so then they go on to the seas and some lakes and streams. And then they get into the food system and into people and animals. So the shower is still a...

I find it to be especially challenging to buy food, especially entrees, without plastic. As anelderly person caring for a handicapped person I need some quick meals. I hope that in the future, plastics will be developed that disintegrate totally in the environment.