Katy D

Team SouthCoast MA

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
156 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

12

disposable cups

not sent to the landfill

Katy's actions

Food

Use a Reusable Mug / Collapsible Cup

I will avoid sending 3 disposable cup(s) to the landfill per day by using a reusable mug or bringing my own collapsible cup.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Minimize Packaging

I will purchase food items with the least amount of packaging.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Community

Keep My Community Clean

I will pick up 2 piece(s) of litter each day.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Lifestyle

Buy Only What I Need

I will not buy anything except items required for health and safety.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Minimize Packaging

With the added mindfulness of reducing your packaging, what have you noticed about the amount and type of single use plastics used for packaging when you shop in the grocery store?

Katy D 7/08/2019 7:19 AM

It is actually amazing the amount of packaging at the grocery store. It seems like most of it is duplicative and unnecessary if items were sold separately instead of in a six-pack or in multi-packs. Most of it is also relatively flimsy and easily picked up by wind and scattered about the neighborhood as trash. Even if the plastic is placed in trash cans, there is no weight to prevent them from being airborne.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Use a Reusable Mug / Collapsible Cup

Great job on getting rid of your disposable cup habit! How does it make you feel? What's next on your list to reduce your waste?

Katy D 7/01/2019 10:34 AM

It feels great to reduce my footprint! Changing habits requires some level of mindfulness as it requires you to be aware and to plan ahead.

I'm not sure what's next on my list. The plastic I do have, I try to reuse as much as possible. And I try to limit the use of plastics at the grocery stores, but sometimes I run out of my reusable produce/shopping bags. I think what's next is planning ways to reduce plastic packaging for foods.

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