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Amanda Kincaid

Life Unplastic Gainesville

POINTS TOTAL

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  • 0 THIS WEEK
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participant impact

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    5.0
    conversations
    with people
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    1.0
    documentary
    watched
  • UP TO
    330
    minutes
    spent learning
  • UP TO
    21
    pieces of litter
    picked up
  • UP TO
    45
    pieces of plastic cutlery
    not sent to the landfill
  • UP TO
    14
    plastic containers
    not sent to the landfill
  • UP TO
    20
    plastic straws
    not sent to the landfill
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    1.0
    waste audit
    conducted

Amanda's actions

Food

Advocate For More Food Packaging Options

I will advocate for alternatives to single use packaging at local grocery stores, markets, or work.

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Pets

Pet Waste

I will spend 120 minutes learning how to compost pet waste at home or research pet waste composting services available in my area.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Lifestyle

Watch a Documentary

I will watch a documentary film about waste with family and friends and talk about what we learned.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Share My Actions

I will make my environmental actions visible by posting to my social media networks.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Keep My Community Clean

I will pick up 1 piece(s) of litter each day.

COMPLETED 21
DAILY ACTIONS

Personal Care

Pearly Whites

I will purchase toothpaste in an aluminum tube or in a glass jar or make my own!

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Visit A Waste Management Facility

I will visit a local dump/transfer station, material recovery facility, and/or landfill to learn about the waste stream.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Lifestyle

Buy Only What I Need

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

COMPLETED 17
DAILY ACTIONS

Lifestyle

Complete a Waste Audit

I will conduct a waste audit - including recyclables and compost - to understand how much waste I create and where I can reduce the most.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Plant a Garden

I will plant an herb or vegetable garden in my home, workplace, or community garden

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Pets

All Natural Pet Toys

I will give my pets natural alternatives to toys like femur bones and antlers, canvas, natural rubber, hemp, rope or cotton toys. Or I will make our own toys from recycled items found in our home!

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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

Food

Use Reusable Utensils

I will keep 3 plastic cutlery out of the landfill per day by using my own reusable cutlery.

COMPLETED 15
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Skip the Straw

I will keep 1 plastic straw(s) out of the landfill per day by refusing straws or using my own glass/metal straw.

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Takeout Pro

I will use my own containers when ordering takeout.

COMPLETED 14
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Community Keep My Community Clean
    How does the act of picking up litter connect you more to your community?

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    Amanda Kincaid 7/07/2019 8:43 AM
    I’m very aggressive about picking up litter in natural spaces but this challenge has made me focus more on picking it up in developed areas as well.  My town I surprisingly clean around town and surprisingly dirty in the natural areas.  This isn’t surprising, I suppose, since people tend to clean up what they consider as “their area” and nature proper is not identified as that for many.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Takeout Pro
    How could you mitigate issues that may arise if the restaurant does not want to let you use your own containers at first?

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    Amanda Kincaid 7/06/2019 11:00 AM
    This is a challenging one to meet some days just because restaurants don’t default to this.  Often, especially with coffee cups, I’ll provide my own container only to pick up and order in a single use item.  They move the food product into my container when I request my container back but that sort of defeats the purpose.  I’m interested in other people’s experiences in this area 

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      Brooke Tate 7/06/2019 6:37 PM
      I've had the same issue with other containers. I once even had someone thank me for not wanting a straw, complimenting my care for the Earth, and then bring us to-go containers with straws, when we said we didn't even want to-go cups lol. People forget, we all make mistakes. But I think it's a matter of trying our best to be obvious with our requests and hope the more we ask, the more normalized and memorable it will be!
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Pets Pet Waste
    By composting your pet waste, you are turning waste into nutrients to feed the soil. In what other ways can you turn waste into a resource in your life?

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    Amanda Kincaid 7/06/2019 10:58 AM
    I have a cat and a dog and I didn’t realize all the differences between tending to their waste.  The cat waste especially is always a challenge.  I think taking a step to reduce single use plastics for cat waste is the best first step but I would love to get to a place where I can compost for both of my animals!  I am glad I spent time looking this up- especially for all of the information on food and the complexity that goes into making your animals own food.  Not sure if I’d be up to that task - or comfortable doing it!
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Lifestyle Watch a Documentary
    Which documentary did you choose to watch? What did you learn?

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    Amanda Kincaid 7/06/2019 6:49 AM
    I watched minimalism on netflix.  The message is great because it’s all about cutting down waste at the source by not participating in unintentional consumerism which results in so much trash and can often turn items which should be an item to be used for years or even decades into a sort of single use item.  

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    Amanda Kincaid 7/05/2019 7:24 PM
    The fourth was nuts!  So much waste created by fireworks and people set them off and just leave their trash behind.  I rarely do anything with large groups for the fourth but I feel like our culture needs to shift around fireworks just like is needs to shift around balloons!