Garbology Homework
Garbology Homework Assignments
- Visit a refill store: Fill Up Buttercup, EcoNow, BYO Long Beach, Glacier water refill station, etc.
- Bring glass/refill jars
- Buy a product that normally requires single use plastic
- Extra credit: buy something for a friend or bring a friend
- See how many times you can reuse:
- Paper bags
- Ziplock bags
- Spot clean clothes instead of washing
- Saves money/ clothes
- Gerald Bush does this
- Drip dry clothes instead of using dryer
- John Lanzon does this
- Pick up a banana peel 🍌 from the street and compost it
- Pick your nose instead of using tissue
- John Craig does this
- Use washcloth to wipe your butt
- Buy recycled toilet paper
- Grow your own toilet paper
- Make or buy used—-holiday presents
- Sew holes in underwear and other clothes
- Forage food in a park or forest
- Refuse to use – Amazon
- Refuse to use – Plastic utensils 🍴
- Plant a garden – grow your own fruits, vegetables and herbs
- Make your own soil amendments: compost, vermicompost, bokashi,…
- Give old, stained clothes new life by reverse tie dye
- Make your own toothpaste
- Make your own sunscreen
- Make your own makeup
- Buy and donate used books (from Arvida Book Co.)
- Save your trash for a week and examine it. Which of the items can you repurpose, refuse, recycle? Which of the items can you swap out for something less trashy?
- Call your local grocery stores and tell them you would like to see options without plastic packaging as well as more bulk bins.