"To reduce our carbon footprint by reducing our waste and improving our local community"
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Kelly's actions
Action Track: Social Justice
Fund Family Planning
#7 Family Planning
I will donate to supply a community with reproductive health supplies.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Food
Composting
#60 Composting, #3 Reduced Food Waste
I will start a compost bin where I live.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Materials
Recycle Everything I Can
#55 Household Recycling
I will recycle all materials that are accepted by local haulers or drop stations in my community.
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DAILY ACTIONS
Action Track: Social Justice
Help Girls Overcome Health Barriers
#6 Educating Girls
I will donate 2 Femme Kit(s) to help girls overcome health and sanitation barriers to being able to attend school.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Land Use
Plant Trees
#15 Afforestation
I will plant 1 tree(s) in my community, public parks, or backyard.
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ONE-TIME ACTION
Food
Smaller Portions
#3 Reduced Food Waste
I will use smaller plates and/or serve smaller portions when dishing out food.
COMPLETED 8
DAILY ACTIONS
Food
Keep Track of Wasted Food
#3 Reduced Food Waste
I will keep a daily log of food I throw away during the EcoChallenge, either because it went bad before I ate it, I put too much on my plate, or it was scraps from food preparation.
COMPLETED 8
DAILY ACTIONS
Participant Feed
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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?
10 April: Our Bokashi composting sysytem is amazing. We didn’t throw any food into the rubbish today-instead it will all go back into our garden after fermenting in our kitchen. We had some wastage today with a few bananas I couldn’t even use for banana bread. But I am going to use the other bananas tomorrow. Our recycling game today is spot on. We are moving towards reducing our packaging so that we have less recycling now.
9 April: Today we used return to earn to recycle all of our glass, plastic, and aluminium drink containers. We had more food waste today, with croissants we purchased from the bakery on the weekend going unused. However, we had little food waste from today’s meals.
8 April: Tonight is bin night. Our bin is normally full and tonight it is only half full. That speaks to an amazing week of reducing our food waste, and increasing our recyclables. Yay!
7 April: We were out all day. While we didn’t have any food waste, we created a lot of recyclable waste with our dinner purchase. We were sure to recycle it all at the end of the day.
Producing food that goes uneaten squanders many resources—seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital. Which of these kinds of waste most motivates you to change your behavior regarding food waste? Why?
6 April: Today we purchased a food composting system that we can keep and use in the kitchen. It should arrive this week and help with our food scraps. Today we kept at our recycling and reducing of food waste missions.
Today we had some food waste- half a punnett of strawberries and a capsicum were off. We separated the fruit from the veg in the refrigerator to lengthen the freshness of the food. We saved left-over carrot sticks and capsicum strips from our morning tea to eat tomorrow. We are thinking of starting a compost bin for the food waste, because it was our greatest amount of household rubbish today.
We have started to collect our soft plastics so that we can drop them off at a local recycling outlet. All other recyclable materials were recycled today.
We are also selecting new charitable actions to do as a part of this challenge and into the future.
