A very big Thank You goes out to all who participated in the Climate Action Waste-Reduction Challenge.
The following are winners of the draw for prizes. You can pick up your prize after the service this Sunday, June 22nd or if you are at the church during her office hours, see Jessie.
Ali Steinbergs, Brenda Jackson, Allan Tunnicliffe, Nancy Kumpf, Sarah Ayerst, Ruby Brauen, Renate Manthei, Shelly Van Dyke
These are waste-reduction ideas that were submitted. Which one(s) could you implement?
- When dining out, bring home excess food in a container you brought
- Share your extra glass containers
- Cut up banana peels for roses and egg shells for lilacs
- Remember my re-usable cup at Starbucks
- Ask for butcher’s paper at Fortinos instead of the plastic zip bag they use
- Use washable hankies
- Fight for packaging reduction on consumers’ products
- Buy thrift
- Stop fashion shopping
- Use reusable containers in your home kitchen
- Swap plastic containers for glass
- Use reusable water bottle
- Pack litterless lunches
- Try cloth diapers
- Bring your own containers
- Buy less stuff!
- Use electrical power after 7 p.m.
- Access info online instead of with hard copy
- Paper vs styrofoam for meat and veggies
- Waste reduction clothing swap with friends
- Search online for good ideas from others
- Convince my husband to take cloth bags to Fortinos
- Consider living without paper towels, Kleenex, toilet paper
- Wash stained clothes, cut into rags, offer to friends and relatives
- Buy second hand clothes. (Polyester, etc. is plastic)
- Use rain barrels. You can make your own. (See YouTube)