1. Carry a reusable water bottle. This could be as simple as using a mason jar.

2. Take a reusable travel mug to the coffee shop, or make your coffee at home. Use a French press or coffee maker and avoid those single-serving packages used in Keurig-like machines. Try a reusable coffee filter in your coffee maker, too!

3. Take your own reusable containers to takeout restaurants. If you hand over the containers when you order and ask nicely, most restaurants will oblige you. Eat out less in general; most of it is full of GMOs, vegetable oils, MSG and other junk anyway.

4. Take your lunch to school or work and avoid takeout. Use a lunchbox and reusable snack bags. Not only is this healthier and cheaper, but you get to keep more of your lunchbreak for yourself!

5. Buy your milk in returnable, reusable glass bottles. In many stores, you’ll even get some money back for doing so!

6. Buy your honey, pickled veggies, maple syrup, nut butters, and other wet foods in jars you can reuse or return to the merchant.

7. Return egg and berry cartons to the vendors at the farmers’ market for reuse.

8. Bring your own reusable bags when doing any kind of shopping. (These fit in your pocket so you never forget!)

9. Shop for food only from the bulk bins and from farms, produce stands or the farmer’s market, where food is unpackaged and fresh. Start a buying club and join a CSA to reduce trash even further and make your food very affordable.

10. Use your own reusable bags for both your produce and bulk items, too.

11. Ditch the processed, packaged food altogether. Make your own soup, yogurt, salad dressing, ice-cream and other foods that come in cardboard, aluminum, and plastic packages. Batch cook on weekends with friends to make it easier. You’ll save a ton of money, and eat much, much healthier this way too. (Here’s how to make it easy, even if you work full time.)

12. When you eat out, politely ask your server to take away any paper or plastic napkins, placemats, straws, cups and single-serving containers, if you can. Be sure to explain why and leave a nice tip for their trouble!

Even our favorite vacation spots and swimming holes are full of trash these days.

13. Don’t buy anything that comes in wasteful single-serving packages, like candy, gum, granola bars, popsicles, etc.

14. Cancel your magazine and newspaper subscriptions and read them online or at the library.

15. Buy e-books instead of paper books, unless it is a reference book you will need if the power goes out. Organize your e-books for easy browsing and searching with this free software. Use the library for books you don’t want or need to own.

16. Do your best to stop your junk mail.

17. Use both sides of a piece of paper before recycling it or making it into upcycled crafts.

18. Use old clothes for rags for cleaning around the house, instead of paper towels.

19. Use cloth napkins and hand towels in your kitchen.

20. Don’t use throwaway plastic razors and blade cartridges. Consider an electric razor or waxing with cloth if you are a woman, or using an electric razor or a straight razor if you are a man.

21. Use non-disposable feminine-hygiene products such as a Diva Cup or Moon Cloth. This is not only much better for the environment, it’s much, much healthier for you too.

22. Consider using family cloth instead of toilet paper. Really! It’s softer, healthier and far less messy than you would think.

23. Make your own non-toxic and effective toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo and even makeup!

24. Use cloth diapers. They are super cute, frugal and much better for your baby’s health, too.

25. Carry a cloth handkerchief or napkin for everything from blowing your nose to drying your hands to wrapping up a purchased doughnut.

This massive dump in Lebanon has partially collapsed into the Mediterranean Sea several times.

26. Make your own non-toxic household cleaners to avoid all the chemicals and throwaway plastic bottles. Put your homemade cleaners in a recycled glass vinegar bottle with a repurposed spray nozzle.

27. Use the plastic bags that other people’s newspapers are delivered in to pick up dog poop.

31. Keep a worm bin or compost pile to compost all your food scraps, leftovers, floor sweepings, and more.

28. Don’t buy anything disposable. Look for durable goods instead or borrow what you need. Paying a little more up front often means things will last much longer for you.

29. Avoid buying anything in packaging (and count the money you save because that means pretty much buying nothing unless it’s second hand). You can also borrow things like tools, strollers and gardening equipment on Neighborgoods.

30. Give your old clothes to charities or others who can use them.

31. List items you no longer need on Freecycle or BuyNothing, instead of throwing them away. (It’s amazing what you can find on Freecycle or BuyNothing! You can sometimes even find motor homes!)

32. Skip buying plastic garbage bags and simply put your trash into the can itself. This will require you to wash the can from time to time, but if you are composting well, it won’t get too messy.

. Make a game with your housemates or children to see just how little trash you can create, and how small you can make your garbage bag every week. Reducing our waste footprint can be a lot of fun!

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+ JUST need you not to throw trash around
+ dump the garbage at the prescribed place

Do not discharge waste into the environment