Project Summary:
Reduce
Buy less. Buy items with less packaging. Pack trashless lunches. Bring your own bag when you go shopping.
Here's some interesting facts on why you should bring your own bag.
- Each year, US consumers use 30 billion plastic and 10 billion paper grocery bags, requiring 14 million trees and 12 million barrells of oil.
- The pulp and paper insustry is the 2nd larges user of energy in the US.
- More than 46,000 pieces of platic contaminate each square mile of our oceans.
- Over 100,000 marine animials die every year from plastic entanglement.
- Only 1% of plastic bags are recycled annually.
Go to the Impact bubble and share the number of trash-less lunches packed, the number of times you brought your own cup, the times you printed double sided, bought items with less packaging. Add your own impact that reduced your output.