It's a beautiful world!
Let's take care of it! 

Falls of Falloch, Scotland


Managing Our Waste At Home: A stay at home mom of 5 gives practical advice on this blog:. https://rachel.willcock.ca/


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Looking for lesson plans and classroom resources?  Try this page: http://resources4rethinking.ca/en/

Pared Down Home

Can families really live this way?  just read and learn from their example on this great site:

https://www.paredownhome.com/

Zero Waste Guy: 

more helpful ideas found here: https://zerowasteguy.com/

Going Zero Waste! I love her motto: "It's not about perfection; it's about making better choices."

https://www.goingzerowaste.com/

Tiny Trash Can - this offers recipes, DIY, and she displays her weekly trash in tiny jars. Someone to aspire to be like for sure! https://tinytrashcan.com/

Trash is for Tossers:

Easy to use blog with lots of ideas.

http://trashisfortossers.com/

Waste Reduction Week/ Zero Waste Lifestyle

Check out these websites and blogs that talk about a #WasteFreeLife!

Thank you to Michelle and Natalie from the Conservationist Organization (Green is Love) and the Young Conservationist Workshop who had suggested we include a great infographic on "The Trash One Person Produces in a Year." Unfortunately, the link they recommended no longer works but I found another picture to take its place. 

Let's Do it World!

a civic-led mass movement that began in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 people united together to clean up the entire country in just five hours. https://www.letsdoitworld.org/

Thank you so much to James, who is working on his Sustainability Merit Badge for Scouts, who recommends these two sites about composting: Composting 101 | Avas Flowers and Composting 101: Grillio's Guide to Turning Food Waste Into Nutrient-Rich Fertilizer

My Zero Waste: A family of three striving for Zero Waste. https://myzerowaste.com/

Treading My Own Path


Lots to learn here: https://treadingmyownpath.com/

Further Learning

A big thank you to Shelley from the New Orleans for suggesting this article on selling, donating and recycling old clothing: A Green Guide to Selling, Donating and Recycling Old Clothing  


Zero Waste Home

You can do it too!

https://zerowastehome.com/

ZERO WASTE BLOGS

If you learn one thing from this Family Theme Day, let it be the "The Five R's"


Refuse

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

Rot (compost)


Other Eco-friendly Days and Weeks to remember:


Earth Day - April 22nd

Earth Week (usually runs from April 16th to Earth Day, April 22nd)

World Clean up Day - September 15th

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Litterless

For more ideas on how to be litterless check this out:  https://www.litterless.com/

Wasteland Rebel!

Become a rebel: https://wastelandrebel.com/en/