Morgan Bettencourt

This challenge taught me that the smallest commitment, or even just stepping outside of your comfort zone can really help make a difference. I think that this is an amazing, and fun way of getting people involved with climate change recovery.

Today my roommates and I took another step.. and we added a waste basket in our house for all the food that we have wasted. I was surprised at how well we have been doing at this!

Tonight at dinner, I encouraged my roommates to bring home their leftover food and eat it tomorrow. This reduces the amount of waste that we are creating for restaurants. We tend to eat out A LOT, and it seems that we never finish our meals, which I did not notice much until we began this challenge.

I completed my challenges on this day, however forgot to log them. My roommates and I still continue to recycle in our dorm, and they have helped me keep track of the food that we waste. We use uber almost everyday or carpool to class!

It has been a difficult task to keep track of my food that is wasted. First of all, it is astonishing to me how much food that I waste, especially when I go to a restaurant. Almost every time I go out to eat, I will put some of my food in a take home box (planning to eat it) and then I throw it away a few days later. Not only is this wasting food, but it is also wasting plastic materials from the box. Carpooling has been somewhat easier because I enjoy it. I either Uber, or my friends and I plan to drive somewhere together. In my apartment, I have two trash cans, one is labeled 
Recycling, and the other is labeled garbage. Not only am I attempting to recycle more, but this has also encouraged my roommates to do so.