the eco-friendly guide

If you have a big Thanksgiving party/feast and you have a lot of leftovers DO NOT THROW THEM AWAY!!! YOU CAN DONATE IT TO PEOPLE IN NEED!!!

Give some to your neighbors or friends

Give some to your church (some churches donate food)

Go around and make plates for the homeless

Contact Copia -> they are a company who donates leftover to people in need

- start a “eat me first” bin in your fridge

Sometimes our fridges can become Narnia, and we can’t find that red bell pepper we brought a few weeks ago. Then you start thinking you're are crazy because you swear you brought it, but you can’t find it....this is totally not a personal experience.

Have a bin, drawer, shelf, or a location in your fridge for the foods

Put all the foods that are close to its expiration date or almost going bad in the bin

Every time you cook/eat go thru that bin first and see what u can use

YALL I JUST FOUND THIS OUT AND IM SO EXCITED!!!! YOU CAN USE CANDLE JARS AS CUTE DRINKING CUPS!!!

- clean out the wax with warm water and soap

- remove the label

- BAM A DRINKING CUP

Please make sure its thoroughly cleaned.

It does have to be a drinking mug. It could be a plant pot, spice jar, and pencil jar. YOU LITERALLY MAKE IT INTO ANYTHING!!!

SAVE YOUR YARD STRAPS!!!!! YOU CAN USE IT FOR COMPOST

Leaves

Stickes

Grass clippings

Dead flowers

Some people start composting during the cold seasons because of the amount of yard scraps you get in the autumn. By the time its spring, your compost is usable!

Ok so I was messing around with canva and I made this for yall :)

CLEAN OUT YOUR 3828 EMAILS!!! That's electronic waste. It takes energy to send and store them. Go through 10 emails a day so u dont have to do all 3828 in one day.

Delete random emails from ur inbox

Unsubscribe from subscriptions

Clean out ur spam

Since Halloween is right around the corner, here is a scary story for you that's happening in your backyard. Happy hauntings my green leaves 😈😈 MUWAHAH *violently starts coughing* sorry asthma

CAFOS stands for concentrated animal feeding operation. They are the big animal farms you see with a bunch of cows, pigs, and chickens in cages.

If you want a good halloween movie I suggest u watch movies about CAFOS. They are VERY graphic and disturbing, so watch at your own risk.

Some CAFOS movies

Food Inc

Farm to fridge

Cowspiracy

Cock fight

Right to harm

THE DEADLY FACTS ABOUT CAFOS ☠☠

Animals are injected w antibiotics and growth hormones (that u end up consuming)

Animal cruelty - mostly to baby animals

Overcrowded = a breeding ground for disease

Unsanitary (POOP AND PEE EVERYWHERE)

Release pollutants (ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, methane)

Land, water, waste pollution

Requires A LOT of land

Cutting down on meat = less contribution to climate change (I'll explain CAFOS in another post)

Try a new vegetarian/vegan recipe. I LOVE vegetarian meals, they are freaking bomb. I'm not talking about a salad. I'm talking bout an actual MEAL.

It can boost your heart health bc a lot of meats we get at the grocery store is pumped out with injections and why not from the animals. Eat veggies, beans, and nuts.

It cuts down on energy. Eating meats costs more energy than vegetables because of CAFOS

(CAFOS stands for concentrated animal feeding operation)

Have leftover veggies?? Make some broth!!

Make vegetable broth out of ur kitchen scraps

The base should be onions, carrots, celery, salt, and pepper (if you say salty is too spicy then im going to come to ur house and feed u spices like the cinnamon challenge... add the salt emma). Let it sim for 2-3 hrs. When it's done make sure u strain it and u can freeze it up to 6 months.

Other things you can add

Bell peppers

Leafy greens

Herbs (not the one you get from ur plug)

The skins of veggies

Mushrooms (not the "fun" ones)

Inspo/reference pics at the bottom :)

You can make a lot of sauces and soup w veggie broth

This reduces our food waste bc we are getting the most out of the food before we throw it away.

- Buy wood kitchen utensils for cooking and eating with it

My mom recently brought wood spoons for cooking instead of the weird plastic/silicon ones we had.

Since some of yall are going back to school, I thought about sharing some ways to be nice to the earth while going back to school

Reuse your old notebooks. Take out used pages (pst pst you can use shredded paper for compost) and BAM new notebook

USE THE SCHOOL SUPPLIES U ALREADY HAVE!!!! I can't stress this enough, if you already have highlighters, don't go buy new ones, FINISH THE ONE U ALREADY HAVE

Try to use up the paper as much as possible. I have a bunch of scrap paper laying around, I use the plain back of the paper to show my work in math. I also write down equations I need to remember and keep it.

Buy second hand supplies. I know they always have a lot of binders and folders. I needed sticky notes for English class I found some sticky notes at a thrift store, it had the label of some insurance company, so heads up its not always gonna look pretty. If you get lucky you might find a one direction notebook 😉

Use those free pens you get from ur doctor's office or the bank. Instead of going out and buying blue or black pens, use those thousands of free pens laying around. My blue pen is a plain pen I got from dentist and my black pen is a pen from my dad's bank. ITS LITERALLY FREE GUYS!!!!

- replace paper towels with rags