Sentences with phrase «making reusable shopping bags»

A few years ago, someone gave us the idea to start an organization that makes reusable shopping bags and gives them away for free to people who take a pledge to use them instead of paper or plastic.

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Checkouts have three - way conveyor belts making it easier to fill reusable shopping bags.

Start small and set a goal for your family to make one positive change a month, whether it is changing your light bulbs to cfls, kicking the plastic water bottle for a reusable water bottle and filter, start recycling, or start using reusable bags when you go shopping.

After that I attached the wheels, made a funnel out of a toilet paper tube, added the bumpers and fashioned some straps from the handles of a reusable shopping bag (does everyone else have approximately 7,000 of those?!)

I know you make the effort to bring you reusable shopping bags when you go grocery shopping, but sometimes you forget.

This could give you an opportunity to make good on a lot of your pledges, like switching to nontoxic cleaning products, reusable shopping bags or stainless steel water bottles.

Why it's hot: There's something for everybody, from a 100 percent recycled plastic tea set by Green Toys to eco-friendly cleaning products to whimsical Envirosax reusable shopping bags to a colorful selection of organic clothes (such as WonderToast and Little Lark), including a blue and orange dress made from sweatshop - free organic cotton ($ 30) by Two Owls.

The pop - up shop, Package Free, will live in Williamsburg from May 1 to July, stocking eco-friendly alternatives to any single - use item you can think of: reusable tote bags, compostable toothbrushes, refillable dental floss, natural beauty products in bulk, even skateboards made from ocean plastic.

NEMA has urged retailers and shoppers to look into alternative packaging material like «paper, steel or bamboo straws» or degradable or reusable shopping bags «made from starch, corn or potatoes.»

From a between - innings stretch to collect recyclables to discount tickets for transit riders to green giveaways, Major League Baseball clubs put an eco-friendly twist on many ballpark traditions for Earth Day — activities that will continue throughout the month and even, in some cases, all the way to the playoff chase.Instead of a bobblehead figure of their favorite player or a team - logoed «rally towel,» fans entering the stadiums of the Cincinnati Reds, the Cleveland Indians, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the San Diego Padres, the San Francisco Giants, and the Texas Rangers on special days during the season receive reusable shopping bags, metal water bottles, or baseball caps made entirely from recycled plastic.

We still talk about green lifestyle choices like recycling, making DIY cleaners or riding a bike - and these things are all still worth doing as a way to lessen the impact of our current system - but for the large - scale, world changing shifts we know are needed to adapt to a changing climate, it's going to take much more than reusable shopping bags.

I used them to make my own reusable shopping bags (there are a lot of free patterns online.

Several things we do: - green shopping bags - recycling - shorten showers - stopped using the bathroom heater - check packaging to make sure it is reusable and / or recyclable - stopped having phone books delivered - started using all paperless billing, whenever possible - turning off lights and using the LED lightbulbs everywhere in the house - compost pile - our first garden this year - my 6 year old told me the other day that she is going to recycle her room... I asked her to explain and she said she is going to recycle it into a castle!