This tweet came up on my timeline. I actually think this is thoughtful? Tons of uses for them

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I'm losing hope with this planet

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Looks in the basement...

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got pretty sunburnt on a work trip and didn't have aloe, bought this instead of a bottle!

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Just discovered a shop in Atlanta, GA, that allows you to bring in your old candle jar and get a refill for 1/2 price!

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Was told to post this here. Saw this on Facebook and thought it was a great idea.

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Cleaning Products Refill Station in Mexico

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I’ve decided to try and combat the neighborhood trash. This was my first outing. 25 minutes of collecting and less than a 1 minute walk from our house.

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A con without a lie.

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Unfortunately...

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You can use a vac sealer to seal bubble mailers and reuse them! I just used the seal function, not vac, it works great and no tape needed! I cut one up to make several smaller packages.

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I own a small pottery business and finally got my hands on a pugmill! Finally I can start recycling my clay scraps instead of constantly driving far to buy more! Boyfriend for scale 🏋

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Repurposed this bear for dish duty.

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McDonald's just launched a bizarre new greenwashing campaign... they've made McD's-themed swimsuits out of recycled straws to advertise their environmental credibility. That's pretty ironic coming from a corporation that is still crapping plastic into our oceans by the ton.

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My friend helped me turn a useless tea towel into a zippered bag for bulk buying!

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when i came home for xmas my mom was making fire-starters out of dryer lint & old candles she’d melted down :D

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me preparing lunch today

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I used the traditional Japanese art of kintsugi to repair my cracked toilet seat instead of throwing it away

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If you struggle with food waste going bad in the fridge, wrap your leftovers in puff pastry and chuck in the freezer. Easy snacks! No more sad leftover curries that never get eaten!

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Low Waste Gifting this Holiday Season

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My Buddhist temple has clean cloth towels in the restrooms instead of paper towels.

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My drugstore just got a refill station for laundry and dishwashing detergent!

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saw this in target

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Bought this handmade basket from an old man at the farmers market, made from old strapping bands and electrical cords

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After 9 months buried in a plant pot my compostable coffee capsule looks unchanged.

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LEGO starts to pack their sets in the paper bags instead of the plastic ones.

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A little Saturday humor. Last of the leaves here will likely be coming down in the storms tomorrow

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somebody made homes for street cats to take shelter in out of water jugs

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Keeping solid toiletries dry

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I think it is a perfect insight

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Do you have a rats nest of cables? Do you poop?

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My boyfriend wrote a paper on how superworms and mealworms can digest styrofoam into biodegradable waste at a fast rate. We expanded it into a project at school this year. This is a farm that I started a week ago. It's simple and low maintenance. Please try it out! [Details in the comments!]

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My toilet has a built in sink to help reduce water waste, flush your toilet with the water from the sink

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Do you relate? :)

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can’t stop eating these potato peel chips

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Ridding of plastic hangers

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decided to regift some stuffed animals instead of buying stuff for halloween this year :)

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The sushi place near me has switched from plastic takeaway containers to paper bags!

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Hell yeah, first time trying Beyond breakfast sausages and they come in a cardboard box with no plastic packaging!!

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I never feel like I’m doing enough to be eco-friendly 🫠

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Saw these colgate less waste toothbrushes today at the store

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This eggplant has a laser marking instead of a physical sticker to show it's organic

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The bathroom shrine is complete

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I make cat toys from repurposed yarn. I have been able to remove a lot of yarn, pillows, and stuffed animals from landfill.

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Our apartment building has a communal laundry drying room

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I made strawberry jam today from reduced strawberries and jars I saved.

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No need to waste the plastic handle

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My late grandparents used to send us giant packs of apples in these containers that my parents have been using as Xmas ornament cases for decades.

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My son shoved the wrong type of cable into his phone so I showed him how to repair his electronics.

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Buying junk for Christmas is NOT as religious duty

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I had some pieces of denim leftover after shortening some jeans and braided it into a dog toy. good way to get rid of fabric scraps :)

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Zero waste dealer

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52 clutter-free gifts

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Repurposed playset

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Made from cardboard ☑️ cry for environmental justice ☑️

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Someone suggested I post this here. A rag rug I made entirely out of old worn out and stained clothes.

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This is COMPLETELY out of season and I did it four years ago, but I work in a bakery in a health food store and this is how I evaded throwing away broken but otherwise perfectly fine cookies that didn't make the cut for platters. Injure bread men!

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saved most of the plastic bag packaging I used in 2022 and ended up with 10lbs of recyclable plastic

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Are there any Philadelphians in here? I started a mobile refill station a couple of months ago and I want to make sure I’m coming to your neighborhood

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Yogurt Pot (originally from casualuk)

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When I forgot to bring my reusable bags to the grocery store

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Save your butter wrappers to grease your pans! A tip learned from my mom.

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The Indian government taking a huge step in the right direction! Compliance would be forced directly through manufacturers.

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I took down a wall in my basement and made Halloween decorations out of the scrap plywood 🎃

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Which one of you did this, I commend you 😂

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finished my first tin of sunscreen since switching from plastic tubes a year ago!

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Ice cream served in a cup made out of a banana leaf. India

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Plastic free picnic set from early 1900s

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A modest proposal for our prolific plastic pushers

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DIYed a soap dish out of unused takeout chopsticks, glue, and thread

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Small win! My bosses took my suggestion to add recycling and compost to our lunch room.

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friendly post-halloween reminder: if you can't/don't have a compost bin or don't want to eat your leftover pumpkins, check your local town pages for farmers ISO your jack-o-lanterns! most are more than happy to get their animals some tasty treats! this is the fourth post i've seen just this morning

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thought this might be appreciated here

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Who says Philly doesn’t know how to recycle?

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We don't need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly, we need billions doing zero waste imperfectly.

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PSA: Don’t buy “zero waste” cutlery sets. Just use cutlery from home or buy some second-hand, and wrap them in a tea towel or cloth napkin. You can even sew your own if you like!

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Grapes in cardboard boxes

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My toddler has been wanting to play with my make-up. Used old/empty make up palettes and nail polish to make her fun, colorful, mess-free play make up!

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A friend and I have started doing weekly trash walks around our neighborhood in LA. This week we filled two whole trash bags going less than two blocks 😶 We’re hoping to keep growing our little “club” and maybe inspire some others to start one too!

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Rather than buying polyfill that will never decompose, I upcycled cotton scraps into a fluffy stuffing for a plushy I'm making!

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Turned the crate from my new toolbox into shelves for wood while sticking it to the man.

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Started a new job and they gave these notebooks out in the Welcome Box

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the hotel I'm at uses edible pots for you to fill with honey/jam/spreads instead of thousands of individual sachets

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Reduce/Reuse/Recyskull

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Been using this same mask since March 2020. Retail work so in use 8+ hours p/day, six days a week. Gets handwashed every night. Can't claim a zero waste lifestyle beyond this really but perhaps the start of something bigger.

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This strawberry carton is great, I just hope they get rid of the window

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Paper packaging in the wild!

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I wonder how consumer habits would change if garbage collection stopped indefinitely

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Indian pencil manufacturer has a novel idea for the wasted end bits.

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I built this bee house with 100% salvaged materials

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This week’s episode of Repair before Replace!

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My husband is a type 1 diabetic. I was thrilled to see this on his latest shipment of insulin!

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Mutual Assured Survival

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In jest, but still my favorite way to use old bananas.

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Saw this online not sure if a repost

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a friend gave me a present and because she knew that I value sustainability she used only recycled and reused materials to wrap and decorate it :) So sweet and thoughtful

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My ice cream came with an edible cookie-ish spoon. It was kinda hard to bite, but didn't soak at all!

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Why not?

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My first ever plastic free groceries

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I wish more stores could participate in doing this for the holidays!

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Local brewery uses cardboard carriers

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Sometimes striving for less is investing in now

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My Shower is More Peaceful Now

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Bulk frozen vegetables in Romania! First time I've seen somethibg like this

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Broccoli stalks are good for broth but also great for pets. He loves the crunchy texture and flavor.

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Praise for the humble pasta salad as vehicle for veggies past their prime

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Can’t take credit for this - ordered something online and the seller created a box out of their existing cardboard

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Instead of carving pumpkins I started to draw them with a marker so I can still use them for cooking

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Trolling on a polluter

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Don't toss your old bricks.

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Got my first darning loom today and patched up a hole in my pocket from my wallet. It’s not perfect but it’s a tool I’m glad to have

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Just some motivation I saw on Instagram

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Sewed these beach bags using my old shower curtain instead of throwing it out!

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My local market now sells berries and cherry tomatoes in bags!

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Discussion: Shorten Your Food Chain

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Never buy green onions again

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I make as many of my daughter's toys as I can, w/ salvaged bits as often as possible. I made this kitchen set out of old cardboard boxes, bottle caps, and CDs that I scrounged from the trash at work. I then decorated it w/paper.

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I’m a contractor and I always re-use material bags for trash.

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Mom's Organic store in Virginia has a cleaner refill station!

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Finally striving towards a zero waste period :)

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Looks like tesco is in on this now. (UK supermarket)

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Solar Powered Dryer

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These felt letters cost $3 and we've hung them at every birthday for years

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I hosted Thanksgiving for the first time and didn’t want to buy a lot of holiday stuff for one night so I just bought colorful fruit to decorate with.

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Glad that big companies are taking notice and coming out with products like this

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in college, I bought 24 packs of water bottles 💀 few years later, I started buying the 2.5 gallon containers 😑 few months ago, I got this 🌞 so upset I didn't do this a long time ago

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Got a hole in the back of one of my favorite t-shirts and my friend offered to add a stitching of a flower to fix it. I love the shirt even more now!

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My cousin sent me a loofa she grew :) she has a ton and has been giving them to friends and family as gifts!

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Restored these thrifted, super old Dr. Martens for a present

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Today I learned how to make my own recycled paper! An empty bag of flour made 13 little sheets!

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Ithaca, NY is an eco-friendly gem

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You guys loved my home grown produce last time - here’s some more!

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Found this on the sidewalk and convinced my husband to drag it noisily back to our house. Then my shoe broke so I had to walk half barefoot. We looked crazy but so worth it!

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Made some shorts, a bucket hat and a bag all from one old jacket ♻️

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Used thrifted fabric and elastic from old bras/camis that my friends gave me to sew a bunch of face masks.

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My zipper broke so I used a keychain to fix it

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Found some vegan ready made meat substitutes that meet my wants.

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The plastic hook on my poop bag holder broke so my husband drilled new holes and used a ring from a keychain to replace the loop

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Zero Waste “activism”

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Cardboard, hemp, bamboo etc. are all materials that need to replace plastics and other harmful materials to the environment

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so awesome! what do you do about ice cream? what are some environmentally-friendly ways to get ice cream?

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I wrapped my Dad's Father's Day gift in a small tarp and used bungees as the ribbon and bow.

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Not entirely zero waste because I still had to use a cardboard box, but I'm moving and I used my T-shirts to wrap my dishes in. Much better quality than using paper and I'm using fewer boxes over all because I don't need to pack my clothes in a separate box

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No One Is Born Hating Anything, Even Hating Who You Are Is Taught: The Wellness Industries Profit From Exploiting Human Suffering And (The Resources Of) Nature (Image Details On The Comments Section 📎)

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