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An overwhelming amount of plastic ends up in our oceans and on our beaches, but who says it has to stay there? Retired plumber John Anderson has been cruising the Olympic Peninsula’s northern beaches since 1976, collecting a staggering amount of stuff. In 2015, he converted his plumbing shop into a museum and invited the public to check out the spoils of forty years of beachcombing.

Read Teresa Bergen's story in our bio to learn more about Anderson's finds.

📸: Courtesy of John Anderson

#PlasticFreeJuly #Beachcombing #PlasticFree #OceanPlastic #BeachCleanup

Is the hot, dry weather taking its toll on your grass? Maybe it's time to embrace

A reader on Martha's Vineyard asked our advice columnist, Dear Dot, what can be done about all the plastic bags we've accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Can they be recycled?

Recycling a ton of plastic bags (about 450,000) saves 11 barrels of oil. When bags are recycled, they are turned into pellets and typically used in products like Trex decking.

The bad news: Only 9% of plastic waste ever produced has been recycled. If pollution continues at this rate, our oceans could contain more plastic than fish by 2050.

The good news: Scientists have discovered microbes that have evolved to eat plastic. The first bug with these natural recycling abilities was discovered in a dump in Japan in 2016. Scientists began studying how the organism evolved and, in the process, accidentally created an enzyme that had even better plastic degradation skills. In 2020, additional experimentation increased the speed of degradation sixfold.

For more good news, see the link in our bio!

#GoodNews #ClimateChange #SustainableLiving #PlasticFreeJuly #Recycling

Did you know you can find #PlasticFreeJuly ideas in the Bluedot Marketplace? Our collection of editors' picks for sustainable products is constantly growing.

We feature companies like @ecozoi, which creates plastic-free products for the home and family, including reusable lunch containers and popsicle molds. Founder Bhavana Deshpande only sells products that her family and her employees love. As Deshpand told reporter Lily Olsen, Ecozoi’s mission is to “redefine lifestyle with eco-safe and healthy products creating sustainable happiness and making people’s lives better.”

Read more at the link in our bio!

📸: Courtesy of Ecozoi

#PlasticFree #ChooseToRefuse #SustainableLiving #SingleUsePlastics

Driving around Flint, Michigan as a volunteer for the Red Cross during the water crisis, Detroit local Ali Rose VanOverbeke looked around her at the cases upon cases of water bottles and realized: She had never seen this much plastic in one place. “I don’t know how to solve a water crisis, but I’m a designer and I know how to make things,” VanOverbeke said. In 2018, she founded @genusee_official, a sustainable eyewear company that makes glasses from recycled plastic water bottles in Flint. The company prides itself on supporting fair, local labor, and creating a circular economy to reduce environmental impact.

Read more about this innovative solution to plastic waste with the link in our bio.

Driving around Flint, Michigan as a volunteer for the Red Cross during the water crisis, Detroit local Ali Rose VanOverbeke looked around her at the cases upon cases of water bottles and realized: She had never seen this much plastic in one place. “I don’t know how to solve a water crisis, but I’m a designer and I know how to make things,” VanOverbeke said. In 2018, she founded @genusee_official, a sustainable eyewear company that makes glasses from recycled plastic water bottles in Flint. The company prides itself on supporting fair, local labor, and creating a circular economy to reduce environmental impact.

Read more about this innovative solution to plastic waste with the link in our bio.

📸: @jeremydriesenphotography

#PlasticFreeJuly #PlasticWaste #BuyBetter #SustainableLiving #Sunglasses

Do you have a plastic-free store in your community? Contributing editor Catherine Walthers visited @gogorefill in South Portland, Maine, to learn more about refillable and low-waste goods. The store's refilling station carries close to 90 bulk items, including laundry dishwasher detergent, dishwashing liquid, liquid soaps, surface cleaners, shampoos, body lotion, shower gels, and more. Customers bring in their own containers or use the store’s recycled collection in an effort to avoid single-use plastics. (P.S. they'll be hosting Plastic Free July workshops all month long!) See the link in our bio for more.

📸: @catherine_walthers

#ZeroWaste #PlasticFree #ChooseToRefuse #PlasticFreeJuly #Sustainability

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This is the time of year to focus on buying and eating root vegetables like beets. It’s also the perfect time to make use...

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