🖕🏼PLASTIC — 🌎500 MILLION PLASTIC STRAWS are used EVERY DAY in America - that’s enough to circle the Earth twice. - (National Park Services) 🌍Virtually every piece of plastic that was ever made still exists in some shape or form. - (Science Advances) 🌏100 BILLION PLASTIC BAGS are used by Americans every year. Tied together, they would reach around the Earth’s equator 773 times! - (Earth Policy Institute) — If we don’t change, no one else will. 🌎🌏🌏 — #PlasticIsForever
I WANT TO HELP YOU WASTE LESS FOOD… — Food it’s something we can’t live without, but roughly 1/3 of food produced globally is lost or wasted. The amount of food we end up “throwing away” could cure world hunger (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). — In the past, I’ve shared easy tips on how to minimize your food waste at home, but I now want to know from you 👉🏼 WHICH FOODS YOU THROW AWAY THE MOST? Maybe they’re going off, or you just don’t know how to use them - please leave your top thrown away items below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 —
I’d love to help you waste less food by offering tips and hacks to utilize the whole fruit or vegetable. — #NoFoodWaste #FoodWaste #EcoFriendly #StopFoodWaste #ReduceFoodWaste — 📸 @charlie.sarsfield
1 IN 9 PEOPLE GO TO BED HUNGRY EACH NIGHT — That’s 795 million people on the planet who suffer from chronic hunger, according to the @unitednations @fao The U.N. forecasts that an additional 2 billion people will be lacking food by 2050. — 🚫THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE🚫 — Everyone has a part to play in reducing food loss and waste - WILL YOU FIGHT WITH ME TO END WORLD HUNGER? — Much is needed to end world hunger, but making small daily changes is achievable. HERE IS HOW YOU CAN REDUCE YOUR IMPACT STARTING NOW... ✅DON’T OVER BUY ✅SHOP SMART AND PLAN OUT YOUR MEALS ✅DON’T OVER SERVE FOOD ✅SAVE AND EAT LEFTOVERS ✅DONATE FOOD TO SHELTERS and lastly, my favorite ✅COMPOST - 👉🏼tag and share this video will friends, restaurants and business to help reduce our global food waste crisis👈🏼 — #UnitedNations #ZeroWaste #SustainableLiving #Vegan #ClimateChange
GLOBAL CHANGE IS NEEDED — If you are reading this, it’s not too late - what we do in this exact moment will change our future. You may not think that what we do has an impact, or affects others across or around the world, but it truly does. — Thank you to everyone reading this, I’ve used my voice and actions to make an impact - YOU CAN TOO! Whether it’s a small change - from saying no to plastic straws or plastic bags, or a large, disruptive change, such as making the leap into a no-waste lifestyle or just eating more plants. — WE NEED YOU! — We are the first and last generation who are aware of the impact of our choices. Are you going to stand on the other side and ignore all the warning signs? Or are you going to stand up and make small, daily changes? — #ZeroWaste #SustainableLiving #ProtectOurPlanet
WANT TO LEARN HOW TO REDUCE YOUR IMPACT IN OUR THROWAWAY SOCIETY? — Each minute across the world, 2 MILLION PLASTICS BAGS are being used 🤯 DOES THIS NOT ALARM YOU? — 🌊In the ocean and on the land, plastic bags (and other single-use plastics such as straws and bottle caps) are often mistaken for food by turtles, fish and other marine life. 🐢🐟🐳🕊 Once ingested, the plastic causes the animal to suffocate or starve, as they cannot digest this material. — 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 WHAT YOU CAN DO… We need to see a cultural shift away from our single-use, disposable lifestyles. Each reusable bag can eliminate hundreds (if not thousands) of plastic bags, so invest in a hardy canvas bag today and start making a difference.👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 ♻️Encourage others to use reusable bags ♻️Give reusable shopping bags or tote bags as a gift ♻️Petition your local council or government to ban or place a tax on plastic bags ♻️Share this post with your friends and family
WANT TO HELP OUR ENVIRONMENT? - here’s how 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 — Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in our landfills and our oceans. — 🕊Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. — 🐢For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. — 🐟Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. — ONLY 1% OF PLASTIC BAGES ARE RETURNED FOR RECYCLING. That means that the average family only recycles 15 bags a year; the rest ends up in landfills and oceans. — ONE SIMPLE AND EASY STEP ♻️Say NO to plastic bags when shopping and BRING YOUR OWN BAG — WILL YOU STOP USING PLASTIC BAGS? 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Easy Do It Yourself - ZERO WASTE CLEANER 🍊♻️👇🏼 — I had no idea that our typical house cleaners were potentially toxic and dangerous⚠️⚠️⚠️ When I started introducing zero-waste habits and choices into my life I had to look at EVERYTHING that I purchased and consumed. I had no idea how EASY it was to make your own house cleaner from potential food waste 🍊♻️ — Want to start making your own ZERO WASTE CLEANING PRODUCTS and SAVE MONEY?! — HERE IS HOW TO START: 🍊Eat oranges (or other citrus fruit) and SAVE PEELS (over a course of one week) 🍊Add peels to a jar and pour white vinegar until covering all peels! 🍊Once peels are covered with vinegar, cover jar with a lid 🍊Leave it alone for 2-3 weeks and store underneath your sink/tap 🍊After 2-3 weeks, separate the peels from the liquid 🍊Mix 50/50 orange peel vinegar with water and REFILL a leftover spray bottle with your NEW zero waste house cleaner - additionally you can add a few drops of your favorite essential oils! ♻️Don’t forget to compost your orange peels too — Now, you can clean your home safely with non-toxic chemicals - WANT TO SEE MORE ZERO WASTE TIPS? 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
F O O D W A S T E T O P 7 T I P S — almost 1 BILLION people are going HUNGRY - while we waste 1/3 of the food we produce — Global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half of all food produced. — WHAT DO YOU DO TO COMBAT FOOD LOSS OR WASTE? — WASTE LESS FOOD TIPS ♻️ create a shopping list and stick to it ♻️ cool what you will only eat ♻️ if there are leftovers, SAVE & EAT later ♻️ store fruits and vegetables properly ♻️ pickling, if necessary ♻️ donate or give those in need ♻️ lastly, my favourite - COMPOST
BEING VEGAN and WHAT IS THE NEW MALE MASCULINITY? — ❗️The new male masculinity is an eruption of old school male values. The new male takes a long hard look in the mirror. The new male isn’t about the ideal body image, or goal of acquiring a six-pack and perfect biceps. The new male is stepping into fear and not holding back tears. The new male is willing to accept defeat and failure, but strong enough (mentally & emotionally) to stand back up again and again. The new male is willing to change old patterns and adopt new change. The new male is concerned about how to be useful, how to help others - now and for the future. The new male is kinder to animals and the planet. The new male is powered by plants. The new male understands and forgives❗️ — Being vegan, or simply just eating more plants has taught me to be more compassionate, kind and loving. Through my adolescences and early teens, I thought that being a M-A-N was to be strong, fearless and brave. I am still all those qualities and more now. Through compassion I am fearless, through kindness I am brave, and through love I am strong. — This is a message for ALL. Please share my words🙇🏻‍♂️ Always love, Max — #ZeroWaste #Sustainability #SustainableLiving #Vegan
⭕️FOOD WASTE⭕️ will be this year's moral crisis, just as single-use plastic was last year. — There was one villain in 2018 and yes, I’m talking about PLASTIC❗️ — With that being said, the response to this growing threat has been inspiring. Last year, we saw businesses and the public become more knowledgable about how products are made and what effect they have on the planet. — WHAT WILL BE 2019 EQUIVALENT ISSUE? — The answer: FOOD WASTE! — A third of the world’s food is WASTED or THROWN AWAY, according to UN data @fao @unitednations The environmental and societal consequences of this are extremely damaging, and dealing with this amount of excess waste costs global economies dearly. — ❌If those of you fought against SINGLE-USE PLASTIC last year, then get ready and bring the same enthusiasm for this year and let’s END WORLD HUNGER❌ — Photo: leftovers and food scraps turned into a big, healthy salad
PLASTIC IS FOREVER Worldwide, a trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, nearly 2 million each minute Earth Policy Institute — We are now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, half of which is for single-use. More than 8 MILLION tonnes of plastic is dumped into our oceans EVERY YEAR @plasticoceans — It can be quite difficult and challenging when choosing to go plastic-less and believe me, it was difficult when I made the decision to go zero-waste. It can be daunting and scary when presented with these facts, but remember that our SMALL CHANGES CREATE A BIGGER IMPACT over time. Will you make one change today? — Over the last year, so many of you have messaged to share with me that you’ve made the conscious effort and decision to go PLASTIC-FREE! I’m beyond happy - I’m moved by your individual stories and your passion for our environment. — #PlasticFree #ZeroWaste #Sustainability
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