Sentences with phrase «reusable items out»

It empowers people on a grassroots and local level to take charge and make the world a better place, keeping countless tons of reusable items out of local landfills.

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While clean - up may not be as easy as getting out the trash bag, you are doing a good deed to mother nature when you use reusable items instead of disposable.

A reusable utensil set and tote bag are other compact, useful items to pack that can save you a lot of unnecessary plastic waste when you're eating out in a new place.

If you have your period, women can swap out a regular tampon for the Ruby Cup, which is a reusable menstrual cup that can be used for up to 10 years, thereby reducing the number of unsustainable sanitary items making their way to landfill.

In 2011, a group of students at the University of New Hampshire noticed overflowing Dumpsters, filled with perfectly good items and reusable materials that had been thrown away by students moving out.

To decrease the amount of stuff thrown out, the Centre provides more durable, reusable versions of items that often only get used once, like glasses at water stations and linen napkins.

It's difficult to calculate all the factors that affect an item's total sustainability measurement, including «the recyclability of materials, their toxicity, the biodiversity of the raw material extraction site, and the working conditions along the supply chain,» but as long as you're efficient about washing dishes, not running the dishwasher unless full, using non-toxic detergent, and not stuffing your kitchen cupboards with far more reusable dishes than you'll ever use, reusables continually win out over disposables.

Instead of the disposable items, the lawmakers suggested businesses hand out compostable or reusable alternatives.