ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

Drink-ware & Dinnerware

Simply Straws are glass straws that are handmade in California. They are BPA free, dentist recommended and have a lifetime guarantee. You can also take their pledge against plastic straws here.

Package Free Shop has a multitude of products from school supplies to personal care products that are all zero waste. They have lunch kit items such as stainless steel food containers, on-the-go cutlery kits and various stainless steel straws including rose gold.  

Personal Care & Hygiene 

Albatross Shave Shop has safety razors and they even have a blade take back program. 

Sand Cloud now has bamboo toothbrushes and 10% of their profits goes towards organizations that dedicated to ocean conservation. 

Package Free Shop also has personal care items such as bamboo toothbrushes for adults and children and even feminine hygiene products that are all zero waste. 

Schmidt’s naturals has deodorants that come in glass jars and and Shea Moisture has face lotions that are packed the same way.  

Recycling (even things you didn’t think could be recycled)

If you’re wanting to recycle some personal care items, household items or even batteries that you know shouldn’t be just thrown away, I recommend signing up for a free recycling box at TerraCycle. TerreCycle is an organization that allows you to send in your waste and have it recycled in a responsible manner. I am currently apart of the “Burt’s Bees Recycle on Us” program and the “ Personal Care and Beauty Recycling Program.” With the second program you can send in shampoo and conditioner bottles, soap pumps, lip balm tubes and many other things. 

All you have to do is go to their website, go to the “recycle your waste” tab and then choose how you would like to send in your waste. For the free programs there is sometimes a wait list but that just gives you more time to accumulate enough recyclables to send in (you need a minimum of 10 lbs for some programs in order to get points to redeem rewards but if you do not care about points and just want to recycle your waste then send it in as soon as you’re off the wait list!). 

I just read that y’all use a straw to drink water. 

What. the. fuck?

Sometimes, and I really mean *some* times, I kinda sorta wish I didn’t have this much of an education. Like, I can’t even turn on the A.C. in this sweltering heat because I feel so fucking guilty. 

Like, my mind just goes- CFCs, Ozon depletion. Earth. Fried.

Like what the fuck? It is soo fucking hot!

But then, I’ve got to do this. Because, even though I don’t really like kids and even humans, really, I don’t want mine and all the upcoming generations to be fried under the direct rays of the sun.