
January 20 - February 17, 2021
Plastic Times Call for Plastic (Free) Measures
Hennepin County
Reducing our reliance on plastics to get us closer to the future we want to see.
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Team Impact
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up to60pounds of CO2have been saved
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up to4documentarieswatched
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up to375minutesspent learning
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up to37pieces of litterpicked up
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up to41poundspackaging waste avoided
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up to2plastic bottlesnot sent to the landfill
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up to11plastic containersnot sent to the landfill
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up to17pieces of plastic cutlerynot sent to the landfill
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up to2plastic strawsnot sent to the landfill
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up to9poundswaste avoided
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up to23poundswaste recycled
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up to16zero-waste mealsconsumed
Team Feed
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February 13 at 2:32 PMMy mother in law gave me this beautiful flower "cake" for my birthday that came on a specialized plastic cake stand that wouldn't work for real cakes. Once the flowers died I reached out to see if the floral shop could reuse it and they were very happy to do so. I think this challenge has helped me to think through the disposal...
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February 11 at 7:12 PMMaking an effort to make dinners vs delivery. Lessens use of plastic by reusing dishes, pans, silverware. Less fossil footprint too.
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February 11 at 7:11 PMMaking an effort to make dinner vs take out. No plastic, less fossil footprint
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February 9 at 9:15 AMI watched Frontline's "Plastic Challenge" last night. Wow! And this morning I thought of something else that was not mentioned in the show; we have also been taught to believe that plastic encasement = sanitary. When my children were young, we would buy diapers in boxes and the diapers were just in the box. Now with my...
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February 6 at 2:50 PMHi friends! One of our teammates and I were just sharing some of our favorite media about plastic waste and I thought I'd share them with you as well!Planet Money | Wasteland: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-landFrontline/PBS Special "Plastic Wars": https://youtu.be/-dk3NOEgX7oThroughline | The Litter Myth:...
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February 6 at 7:39 AMAll purpose spray cleaner--easy, peasy.
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