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This is at the @safeway by my office! I'vee shopped here pretty much every Tuesday and this is the first time I've seen them expand their bulk food section. I can feel it 🔶🔸the next wave is coming! 🌊🌰🌱🌎 #alteredeco #bulkfoods #buybulk
Huge shout out to my girl Jessica Healey at Pronounce Skincare! She started this small company 5 years ago and sources every raw ingredient she sells. Every product is organic and comes in a cute glass jar. She even wrapped everything in paper instead of plastic (which I'm guessing she would have done even if I hadnt asked). Thank you thank you thank you! Get your craft on people! ✌🌎✂🔎📏📖🌲
#alteredeco #diy #gratitude
Today's grocery loot, not perfect but... Dave's Killer Bread is too good to pass up. I brought containers for my salmon, quinoa, cheese and beans. I opted for peanut butter and mayo in glass jars. And! I got milk from a local farm (that I bought at @wholefoodsdmv) and when we finish it, we can return the glass jug to @wholefoods and the farm will be able to reuse it! Not quite milkman status but we're getting there. I purchased things with plastic but I sacrificed where it made sense and I avoided it when I could! You can do it too! Happy @plasticfreejuly!!!!
#plasticfreejuly #glassy #alteredeco #babysteps
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Happy plastic free July! I celebrated somewhat ironically by purchasing a bidet made of plastic! I went on Tushy's website for the bidet but I stayed for the butt puns. Goodness that site is just one long and inappropriate dad joke and I love it.
My family was understandably confused when I shared my most recent purchase. The most common response I got was "but don't you have to dry off?" And yes, yes you do. I chose to buy bamboo toilet paper to accompany my new toilet buddy. But ultimately, the amount of toilet paper I use has lessened dramatically and my butt has never been happier.
It took us about 10 mins to attach and most of that time we spent debating the difference between a Phillips and a flathead screwdriver. You'll need a flathead. In my order notes I wrote "as little plastic packaging as possible please!" And look at that, absolutely zero plastic packaging, thank you @hellotushy!!!!!!
Check it out, its not as weird as it sounds. The website is hellotushy.com not tushy.com... That's porn. Web surfer be warned.... "I came for the bidet and stayed for the story line...and butts"
#alteredeco #bidet #sustainable ✌🌎🚽💩
I couldn't sleep this morning, so we biked the marshes and made some bird friends ✌🐦🌲🌎🚲
#alteredeco #rideordie #explore
My roommate went to Mexico last week so the night before she left I sewed this guy together real quick! Took about 10 mins, including mistakes! Sometimes just having a cute accessory is all the encouragement someone needs to take one more step toward zero waste #goinggoing #zerowaste #alteredeco #stainlesssteelstraw
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A teacher of mine in high school told my class to put up dividers around our desks and then passed out M&Ms to everyone. He asked everyone to organize them. After a few minutes he gets to my desk and sees that I have made a sun and a tree out of the colors I had been given. Laughing, he asked everyone to see how their neighbor had organized their M&Ms. Everyone had organized them into color columns or blobs. He points to mine and says “everyone does things a little differently, and we can all be right.”
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This is at the @safeway by my office! I'vee shopped here pretty much every Tuesday and this is the first time I've seen them expand their bulk food section. I can feel it 🔶🔸the next wave is coming! 🌊🌰🌱🌎 #alteredeco #bulkfoods #buybulk
Huge shout out to my girl Jessica Healey at Pronounce Skincare! She started this small company 5 years ago and sources every raw ingredient she sells. Every product is organic and comes in a cute glass jar. She even wrapped everything in paper instead of plastic (which I'm guessing she would have done even if I hadnt asked). Thank you thank you thank you! Get your craft on people! ✌🌎✂🔎📏📖🌲
#alteredeco #diy #gratitude
Today's grocery loot, not perfect but... Dave's Killer Bread is too good to pass up. I brought containers for my salmon, quinoa, cheese and beans. I opted for peanut butter and mayo in glass jars. And! I got milk from a local farm (that I bought at @wholefoodsdmv) and when we finish it, we can return the glass jug to @wholefoods and the farm will be able to reuse it! Not quite milkman status but we're getting there. I purchased things with plastic but I sacrificed where it made sense and I avoided it when I could! You can do it too! Happy @plasticfreejuly!!!!
#plasticfreejuly #glassy #alteredeco #babysteps
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Happy plastic free July! I celebrated somewhat ironically by purchasing a bidet made of plastic! I went on Tushy's website for the bidet but I stayed for the butt puns. Goodness that site is just one long and inappropriate dad joke and I love it.
My family was understandably confused when I shared my most recent purchase. The most common response I got was "but don't you have to dry off?" And yes, yes you do. I chose to buy bamboo toilet paper to accompany my new toilet buddy. But ultimately, the amount of toilet paper I use has lessened dramatically and my butt has never been happier.
It took us about 10 mins to attach and most of that time we spent debating the difference between a Phillips and a flathead screwdriver. You'll need a flathead. In my order notes I wrote "as little plastic packaging as possible please!" And look at that, absolutely zero plastic packaging, thank you @hellotushy!!!!!!
Check it out, its not as weird as it sounds. The website is hellotushy.com not tushy.com... That's porn. Web surfer be warned.... "I came for the bidet and stayed for the story line...and butts"
#alteredeco #bidet #sustainable ✌🌎🚽💩
I couldn't sleep this morning, so we biked the marshes and made some bird friends ✌🐦🌲🌎🚲
#alteredeco #rideordie #explore
My roommate went to Mexico last week so the night before she left I sewed this guy together real quick! Took about 10 mins, including mistakes! Sometimes just having a cute accessory is all the encouragement someone needs to take one more step toward zero waste #goinggoing #zerowaste #alteredeco #stainlesssteelstraw
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@starbucks has just announced it will be removing straws from stores worldwide. Adult Sippy Lids, coming to a store near you #happyMonday #refuse #sippycup
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Successful Farmers Market run on Saturday. Got everything we needed to make black bean burgers (minus the beans). And we got to drop off our compost which was much needed! Then we went for a bike ride on the MT Vernon Trail where we ran into one of my old high school teachers, Mr. Trone, whose voice caught me off guard when he said "excuse me miss, where did you get that lady's hiking pack?" And I was like... Uhh, dude you taught me in high school!! After geeking out for a bit and catching up, I told him that my pack is made from water bottles and old billboard signs. Then handed him @hamiltonperkins business card, a sustainable designer based in Norfolk, Va. A pioneer in #alteredeco ✌🌽🌎🍅
#farmersworld #farmersmarket #oldtown #alteredeco #nomoreplastic #thankyou
Not any more it ain't....
💩 how is there not a carrot emoji?
#shit #alteredeco
Zero waste isn't always perfectly angled pictures with rustic wood or bamboo backgrounds. There isn't always A random succulent around to liven up the shot. A lot of times it just looks like this. And I think it's lovely 😍♻🍑✌🌎
#alteredeco #zerowaste
So today I finished a bag of carrots that my coworker had brought in... with permission. Because carrots are good and I like snacking. This is what I mean by "do what you can". I finished those delicious carrots then I flipped the bag inside out and cleaned it, let it dry and later today I'll use that bag to pick up my dog's 💩 and save a grocery bag. Is it zero waste? Is it technically better than throwing the bag away right now? I dunno man. I dont know. But I do know that after an insightful conversation with my sister I realized that these little actions of mine wont answer our big questions. And maybe I'm not trying to solve global warming, the refugee crisis or coral reef bleaching. Maybe I'm not trying to change policy or take down a big plastics company. Maybe I'm just trying to change my own policies. And if I want to take control of the choices I make and the options available to me, then I have to be more aware of the decisions I make on a daily basis. Change starts at home, right?
#mindfulness
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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children" - Native American Proverb
And that is what I will be celebrating this fourth of July ✌🌎🎆🌲🌻
#alteredeco #zerowaste #payitforward
@heirstoouroceans
Day 26. Only two days until I turn 26... My jar is pretty full. I've made way too many reusable face cloths. I put salt on cooked vegetables just so they taste a little bit like the chips I've been trying not to eat. I tried to make my own chips last night. Did you know they come from potatoes? They were soggy and I put too much cayenne pepper on them. Who does that? Oh and I've recycled 22 glass bottles this month... Need to cut that down. Other than that, I've spoken with people in Canada, India and England about their experiences with zero waste in their cultures. We all face similar roadblocks on our journeys but one thing that has helped each of us is our ability to reach out across the ocean and speak with people who are passionate about altering their behavior and helping the planet out while we're at it!
How will you alter eco today?
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#alteredeco #trashjar #trashy #zerowaste #goingzerowaste #ecofriendly
@pointless_packaging am I doing this right?
#pointlessplastic #miss #zerowaste #almost #reusable
Beet nails. Beet juice. Beet waste. ✌🌎🌲🍑
#alteredeco #zerowaste #plasticfreejuly #juice #beets
