Jesse Horne

Calgary Zoo Stampede Stomp Out Plastic

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
549 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

130

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

15

zero-waste meals

consumed
UP TO

21

plastic containers

not sent to the landfill

Jesse's actions

Food

Minimize Packaging

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

COMPLETED 16
DAILY 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.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Lifestyle

Homemade Cleaners

I will make my own cleaning products at home.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Personal Care

Fresh as a Daisy

I will use deodorant either from a bar or a jar or I will make my own.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Lifestyle

Travel Eating

If traveling, I will bring my own airplane snacks and eat at local restaurants to avoid take-out containers.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Lifestyle

Buy Only What I Need

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

COMPLETED 15
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Cook a Zero-Plastic Waste Meal

I will prepare 1 meal(s) at home each day without using any items packaged in single-use plastic.

COMPLETED 15
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Use Reusable Bags

I will not accept any disposable bags when making purchases, including produce bags.

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Make Your Own

I will try new recipe(s) or food preparation method(s) each day, such as canning, pickling, making yogurt, or baking granola bars or bread.

COMPLETED 13
DAILY ACTIONS

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Make Your Own

How do you feel about being more involved in the food preparation process? Joyful, overwhelmed, engaged, empowered? What are the benefits of choosing to process or produce your own food instead of buying it pre-processed?

Jesse Horne 7/29/2019 8:07 AM

Made pickles and bread this month, and are on a mission to try to make our own yogurt - a product it is almost impossible to find plastic free. making bread takes a while but not as long as I think it does in my head.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Use Reusable Bags

How difficult was this challenge for you? What made it easy or difficult?

Jesse Horne 7/29/2019 8:05 AM

I refuse plastic bags when possible already, but this month I definitely made a bigger effort to keep a cloth tote with me or in the car and it helped!

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Food Cook a Zero-Plastic Waste Meal

Do an inventory of your kitchen to see how many single-use plastics you've used in the past. What are some resuable alternatives to these commonly used products? What would your impact be if you switched all the single-use products from your inventory to reusable?

Jesse Horne 7/29/2019 8:05 AM

My kitchen is basically plastic free outside of food packaging. We did get rid of saran wrap in our house this month, and switched to tinfoil when needed. It's not easy to cook plastic free when I consider most of the grains and meat I purchase end up in plastic. It can be done but it sometimes takes trips to multiple grocery stores.

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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?

Jesse Horne 7/29/2019 8:03 AM

Some things it seems almost impossible to find not wrapped in plastic. I don't live near a bulk barn, so I wish at Safeway or superstore you could zero out your personal containers and save plastic there. Thankfully most vegetables are plastic free, or have plastic free options, although I wish we could somehow avoid the plastic clamshell packaging a lot of berries and fruit come in - I have tried to buy in bulk and bring my own mesh bags for those items whenever I find them loose.

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Jesse Horne 7/29/2019 7:34 AM

At folk fest over the weekend - it was so nice that so much of the food containers were compostable! Also great to have the volunteers at the waste stations to help correctly sort recycling/compost/garbage.

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Jesse Horne 7/16/2019 2:30 PM

Sign the petition to ban plastic bags in Calgary: https://www.change.org/p/ask-calgary-city-council-to-ban-single-use-plastic-bags

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Jesse Horne 7/16/2019 7:31 AM

bought silk floss in a refillable glass container - no plastic, and the floss is compostable!

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