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Cecilia Hernandez

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POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 1,013 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    72
    pieces of litter
    picked up
  • UP TO
    2.0
    plastic containers
    not sent to the landfill

Cecilia's actions

Personal Care

Dam the Flow

I will use a menstrual cup and/or cloth pads

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Personal Care

Lather Up

I will replace my soaps, shampoos, and conditions with either a bar or refillable option.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Takeout Pro

I will use my own containers when ordering takeout.

COMPLETED 2
DAILY ACTIONS

Community

Keep My Community Clean

I will pick up 4 piece(s) of litter each day.

COMPLETED 18
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Buy Unpackaged Produce

I will purchase produce items without plastic packaging.

COMPLETED 5
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/28/2019 7:15 PM
    Sometimes I can feel myself losing steam, and then an object reminds me of why we are doing this.  Just a few days left to get our points in!

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/27/2019 11:38 AM
    Went to the grower's market with my cloth bags. Among other goodies, I bought more beeswax food covers as a gift. Spreading the joy!

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/25/2019 7:48 PM
    Remembering the documentary Period. End of Sentence, about women in rural India manufacturing sanitary pads out of cellulose from pine wood and cloth. 99% biodegradable. They went from discarded rags to this. Why did our society get stuck on landfill-clogging products?

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/20/2019 1:36 PM
    Shopping for ingredients - always happy to see the option to buy a can instead of plastic.  Fortunate to be able to, for small purchases like this, not even think about the cost difference and focus only on the material.

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/19/2019 1:19 PM
    I am beyond words whenever I see someone, on a hot day, drinking the last sip of water from their single use bottle and they head right to toss it when, just behind them, there is a water fountain where they could refill it!  It would be a bit much if I yelled from across the garden...

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/18/2019 4:52 PM
    It is encouraging to see more refillable products services becoming popular - like Loop and Cleancult.  Now to overcome the last hurdle and sign up...

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/16/2019 9:15 PM
    I wish I were more courageous to strike up the conversation about plastics with acquaintances, especially as a shier person.  Went out to dinner with a large group of my husband's coworkers and I kept missing opportunities to prevent a straw from arriving or a to-go box from being requested...

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/15/2019 2:36 PM
    Cheerfully lending my spare metal utensils to coworkers at lunch, as soon as I see them searching for the plastic ware.

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/14/2019 5:20 PM
    Very happy to see that some meat packaging has shifted from styrofoam to a sturdier recyclable plastic.  Still plastic, but a step in the right direction.

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    Cecilia Hernandez 7/13/2019 3:07 PM
    When I told the waitress we wouldn't be needing chopsticks because we brought our own she exclaimed "Cool! So I won't offer you straws then..." I was glad the purpose of both actions could go without saying.