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Shelley Shrader

Plastic Free New Orleans

"Education for All"

POINTS TOTAL

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participant impact

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    90
    minutes
    spent learning
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    1.0
    community event
    hosted or attended
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    5.0
    hours
    volunteered
  • UP TO
    1.0
    documentary
    watched
  • UP TO
    54
    plastic containers
    not sent to the landfill

Shelley's actions

Lifestyle

Watch a Documentary

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

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Join a Cleanup Effort

I will host or participate in a beach, highway, river, or other cleanup effort in my community.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Personal Care

Brusha Brusha Brusha

I will replace my plastic toothbrush with a bamboo toothbrush.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Use Reusables at Work

I will use reusable dishes and silverware when eating at work.

COMPLETED 27
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

Share My Actions

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

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Use Reusable Bags

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

COMPLETED 27
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Buy Unpackaged Produce

I will purchase produce items without plastic packaging.

COMPLETED 27
DAILY ACTIONS

Personal Care

Lather Up

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

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

Personal Care

Back in the Bowl

I will purchase refillable beauty products.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Personal Care

Pretty oh so Pretty

I will purchase beauty products that are packaged in sustainable packaging.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Community

Volunteer in my Community

I will volunteer 5 hour(s) in my community.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Visit the Butcher

I will purchase meats and cheeses from the deli counter or a butcher shop, and use my own containers to do so.

COMPLETED 26
DAILY ACTIONS

Food

Minimize Packaging

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

COMPLETED 27
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

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

  • 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?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:31 PM
    I eliminated single plastic wrapped cheese this month. I’m still not satisfied with the amount of plastic around every type of cheese but I will continue to look or I won’t eat it as much, maybe even buy it in bulk! 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Use Reusable Bags
    How difficult was this challenge for you? What made it easy or difficult?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:30 PM
    This is pretty similar to my reusable produce bags but I will say when I check out at Rouse’s they don’t even think it’s weird if I ask for no bags at all! Any time I go to target or Walmart I get very strange looks  
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Visit the Butcher
    How has using your own containers impacted the quality of the food you receive? Does this give you more awareness of where your food comes from as opposed to just grabbing a package of mystery origin cheese/meat?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:28 PM
    This was a pretty scary challenge for me-having yo ask for something more at a store. But I found people are pretty easy going about what you want and I shouldn’t be so scared to say no to single-use plastics! 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Community Join a Cleanup Effort
    How does working with others to clean up your community make you feel?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:27 PM
    Cleaning up trash around New Orleans is easy to find. 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Use Reusables at Work
    It is often true that we only have control over our own actions and not the collective community. How can you lead by example when it comes to switching disposables for reusable dishes in your community?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:26 PM
    This was extremely easy to do at the Aquarium because the volunteer lounge has its own kitchen! Even on days where I forgot to pack reusable utensils I could find a fork to use
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Buy Unpackaged Produce
    Why do you think these produce products started amassing so much plastic packaging? Who is the plastic packaging really serving -- the consumer, the producer, or someone else?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:12 PM
    This was a surprisingly easy task. If you don’t get a produce bag-no one cares! I do have reusable produce bags but I often forget them so I just don’t use them! 

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    Shelley Shrader 7/31/2019 12:10 PM
    They should definitely add a one time challenge for traveling during the month of July. I have found airports and flights particularly difficult to find things that don’t have single use plastics! On all my feedbacks for flights I have put use less single use plastics! 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Community Volunteer in my Community
    How does volunteering enhance your community and/or change your relationship with it?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/20/2019 6:45 PM
    Volunteering in my own community is easier said than done. It’s hard to commit to work on your days off, but I did it! I volunteered at a local animal shelter and went and walked some dogs! Yay me! 
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Lifestyle Watch a Documentary
    Which documentary did you choose to watch? What did you learn?

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    Shelley Shrader 7/17/2019 5:11 PM
    I have had 16 students in my training group all watch different documentaries! We have watched Chasing Coral, A plastic Ocean, and Mission Blue!

    Not to mention our countless episodes of Blue Planet! We love the Ocean

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    Shelley Shrader 7/17/2019 5:07 PM
    I am avoiding a lot more foods at the grocery store.