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Family Activity

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Compiled from
REDUCE.ORG and DOITGREEN.ORG.

1. Determine how much food waste you create each day for lunch-measure and track all the food you throw away from your lunch during one week on a chart at home.

2. Brainstorm ways to reduce how much food and trash you are throwing in the garbage by 50% using the tips above.

3. Measure and track your waste after implementing no waste lunch ideas.

4. If you've achieved your goal, pack special no waste treats in your lunch!

 

Resources

Ideas for reducing waste at school, work and home, reduce.org

Getting an A at Lunch: Smart Strategies to Reduce Waste in Campus Dining guide. Download informinc.org/getatlunch.php

Success stories including schools in Minnesota
wastefreelunches.org/success.html

Call the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for multiple copies of "Creating Less Waste at School" 651-215-0232 or email clearinghouse@pca.state.mn.us

Green Up Youth Sports

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Ryan North
Twin Cities Green Home Store and parent

Ten Things You can do to Green Up Your Youth Sports Experience

50 Ways To Love Your River

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Reprinted from the Oregon Environmental Council
oeconline.org

More and more, people forget the impact they have every day on their rivers. Most clean water regulations focus on reducing pollution from big sources such as factories and sewage treatment plants. Although industry needs to be cleaned up further, it’s time we turned our attention to forestry, agriculture and the behavior of each resident of the watershed.

Rain, Rain, Where Do You Go?

Resources
Planting for Clean Water www.bluethumb.org

Friends of the Mississippi River www.fmr.org

Minnesota Associate of Watershed Districts www.mnwatershed.org
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