Cecilia Hernandez

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!

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!

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?

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.

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...

It is encouraging to see more refillable products services becoming popular - like Loop and Cleancult.  Now to overcome the last hurdle and sign up...

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...

Cheerfully lending my spare metal utensils to coworkers at lunch, as soon as I see them searching for the plastic ware.

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.

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.