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Frontiers’ volunteers: a time for giving and reflecting

Frontiers

They redistribute unsold food items and hygiene products from supermarkets and other businesses to associations supporting people in difficult situations, helping to simultaneously combat hunger and food waste. It definitely improved my shopping skills too! What does the organization you volunteered for do?

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Students in Sustainability are Making Progress at CSU

HumanNature

Trash bags spill out of the dumpsters near residence halls. Despite all that CSU has accomplished, there is still a large disconnect between students and knowledge of living sustainably. Ecoware products are all around campus, yet so many are unaware that they are made of compostable materials.

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Food Storage Tips and Hacks To Reduce Food Waste

Onya

Dairy Products Storage. To freeze them whole, place them in a reusable freezer bag, removing as much air as possible before sealing. You can also peel and slice into quarters and then freeze in a reusable food storage bag with as much air removed as possible. Dairy Products Storage. Food Basics Storage. Planning Ahead.

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Eco Friendly Products

Environment Blog

How on earth can we find out all this information about the products we buy and can we trust what we ready anyway? Considerations for an Eco-Friendly Product. Focus on things you buy a lot of over the year or spend large amounts on. So what can you do; Plastic bags are so last decade! DO NOT THROW FOOD AWAY.

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A Plastic Economy: Is Recycling Broken?

HumanNature

How can you limit your consumption of plastic products and help increase the percentage of plastics being recycled? We have figured out how to make plastics at such a low cost that their value to society and the threat of their accumulation has been disregarded while their production rate has exploded over the last 70 plus years.

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Easy Tips to Ease off Plastic

Academy of Natural Sciences

July 1 also marks the start of Philadelphia’s ban on single-use plastic bags at retail establishments and a ban on paper bags that contain less than 40% recycled content. New Jersey’s law banning single-use plastic bags and foam containers takes effect May 22 and is one of the toughest laws of its kind in the country.

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Master Watershed Stewards Help Purge Plastics On The Lower Susquehanna River

PA Environment Daily

Annually, the large-scale cleanup takes place somewhere within the Lower Susquehanna River Watershed. million plastic bottles every hour, and every week, 10 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. This year's focus was the Lake Clarke area, a 10-mile reservoir or "lake" formed by the hydroelectric Safe Harbor Dam. Americans use 2.5

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