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Do you ever find yourself at the French Broad River staring at piles of plastic litter wondering what you can do to stop this?  Asheville GreenWorks and our sister page, Going Plastic Free, are here to help you make this happen! Mind Your Plastic May is a month-long campaign to inform you about the grave social and environmental harms that ensue from plastic waste and equip you with the knowledge to reduce plastic in your own life.  

All month long, we will be sharing plastic reduction tips, volunteer opportunities to address plastic waste, educational materials featuring local Asheville businesses, and much more. We aim to foster knowledge and encourage mindfulness around plastic consumption and disposal for individuals and business owners. This month, we hope you will follow us on Facebook and Instagram, where you will gain valuable knowledge about how to refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics, as well as learn about local waste reduction efforts.

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Mind Your Plastic May is meant to encourage and challenge us in our journey to live plastic free. These posts are created by GreenWorks staff. If you've found these posts helpful and encouraging, please consider making a donation to support this work. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]

A Review of 'Join the No-Plastic Challenge: A First Book of Reducing Waste'

5/25/2020

11 Comments

 
By Mary Moody
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By Mary Moody

The Crosby, Stills, & Nash lyrics, “teach your children well,” came to mind when I purchased Join the No-Plastic Challenge by Scot Ritchie. Our children will inherit this earth, and we need to do everything we can to teach them that Earth is our home and deserves our protection.  

This illustrated book for children uses cartoons to explain how plastics are made, the good uses for plastic, and the harm caused by single-use plastics. The book’s birthday party theme illustrates simple changes we can make to reduce plastic waste.  For example, in the book, the children remember to bring their own water bottle, help their parents to remember reusable bags when shopping, and politely say, “No, thank you!” to straws and lids at restaurants.  

This book strives to educate children about the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse & Recycle.
It teaches children how the 3 Rs help to protect our wildlife and our food sources. Readers are also challenged to go a day without using any single-use plastics and to leave each place they visit cleaner than when they arrived.  This book may seem redundant to families already making plastic reduction a priority. However, other families might be inspired to reduce their plastic usage by practicing the thoughtful examples explained by Scot Ritchie. Adults can gain perspective as they teach their children about building a better world. And no time is better than childhood for learning the importance of the 3 Rs!  

11 Comments
Bobby Chase link
2/7/2021 04:12:38 am

Grateful for sharinng this

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Hackney Rubbish Removals link
8/26/2021 02:03:16 pm

This content is impressive. I would love to learn more about reducing waste

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Enfield Rubbish Removals link
8/27/2021 12:28:23 pm

I'm pleased to join in this challenge.

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Junk Removal Company link
8/31/2021 12:34:20 pm

Nice challenge. I hope this would be a viral on tiktok and other social platforms to encourage everyone

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Waste Collection link
9/6/2021 12:40:22 pm

Amazing article. Very educational and instructional. It has helped us a lot! Thanks for sharing!

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Rubbish Removal link
9/7/2021 12:48:22 pm

Nice drawing. This will encourage to do the same

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Junk Removal Company link
9/8/2021 12:30:08 pm

It's nice to see this

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Waste Collection link
9/15/2021 01:10:56 pm

Great book for children

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12/1/2021 07:45:55 am

The children then realize that there are no recycling boxes at the snack bar.

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12/23/2021 01:25:44 pm

We aim to foster knowledge and encourage mindfulness of plastic consumption and disposal. Thank you for the beautiful post!

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Rubbish Removal link
3/9/2022 06:20:02 am

Amazing. I agree and appreciate your effort to gather knowledge provide us on Professional removing Service. I will read your other blogs too. Thanks one again.

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