Pack a Waste Free Lunch
It pays to pack from a nutritional standpoint, but does your lunch contain paper, plastic and drink boxes that get tossed in the trash? There are some neat reusable lunch containers out there... you should check them out.
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DID YOU KNOW?
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DID YOU KNOW?
- About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material.
- Plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to degrade and is contaminating our soil and water.
- Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
- The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
- Juice boxes are laminated with a plastic resin which prevents them from being recycled
- Every year we fill enough garbage trucks to form a line that would stretch from the earth to halfway to the moon.
Expense: A one-time investment of reusable containers (which most of us have already). You will save money by not buying plastic baggies, paper lunch sacks, water bottles and juice pouches.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - REDUCE the amount of pre-packaged items you buy. REUSE containers to hold your lunch and all of its content. Recycle anything that is not reusable.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - REDUCE the amount of pre-packaged items you buy. REUSE containers to hold your lunch and all of its content. Recycle anything that is not reusable.