Creating a Healthier World
July Challenge
As you know by now, the Unity Environmental Team is promoting the elimination of single use plastics in your daily life. By limiting your use of disposable plastics, you can live healthier and create a healthier planet. Our July 2020 challenge focuses on eliminating the use of plastic produce bags. Reusable produce bags made from cotton cloth, netting, or synthetic fiber offer great benefits for you and the environment. For example, they reduce your plastic waste, create less toxicity, keep food fresher, and save money. Overall, reusable produce bags are a worthy investment for anyone concerned for their own well-being, as well as for the environment.
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As you know by now, the Unity Environmental Team is promoting the elimination of single use plastics in your daily life. By limiting your use of disposable plastics, you can live healthier and create a healthier planet. Our July 2020 challenge focuses on eliminating the use of plastic produce bags. Reusable produce bags made from cotton cloth, netting, or synthetic fiber offer great benefits for you and the environment. For example, they reduce your plastic waste, create less toxicity, keep food fresher, and save money. Overall, reusable produce bags are a worthy investment for anyone concerned for their own well-being, as well as for the environment.
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June Challenge
The Unity Environmental Team is encouraging you to take steps to eliminate single use plastics in your daily life to live healthier and create a healthier planet. Our June 2020 challenge is to ditch commercially bottled water and start using tap water again. So, dig out your existing reusable water bottles (that are preferably BPS Free or stainless-steel) and start refilling them at home. If you need convincing, consider this:
The Unity Environmental Team is encouraging you to take steps to eliminate single use plastics in your daily life to live healthier and create a healthier planet. Our June 2020 challenge is to ditch commercially bottled water and start using tap water again. So, dig out your existing reusable water bottles (that are preferably BPS Free or stainless-steel) and start refilling them at home. If you need convincing, consider this:
- 40% of all bottled water is just filtered tap water
- making plastic bottles uses millions of barrels of oil annually
- the US alone consumes 500 million units of bottled water each week
- 80% of the empty bottles end up in a landfill or in the ocean.
- plastic bottles take hundreds of years to break down
- plastic interacting with the water creates significant health concerns
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion". Let us stop killing the planet with plastic water bottles and make a difference. By making small incremental changes in our daily habits we are contributing in positive ways to our planet, and it feels good."
Paulo Coelho
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April/May Challenge
April and May, your challenge was to stop using plastic bags when shopping by bringing your own reusable bags to the store. We thank Nancy and Loren Walz for providing the 75 bags that will be used to begin our challenge. If you want a bag, send an email to unity@unitycenter.org or call 208-664-1125. For more information about the issue of single us plastics check out this Today Show segment. |
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Your Unity Environmental Team
Audra Holm, Nancy Walz, Chuck Hosack, Sandy Kaplan, Pat Bentley, Herta Long, Gaea Swinford, Salli Smith and Rev. Stephen Towles
Audra Holm, Nancy Walz, Chuck Hosack, Sandy Kaplan, Pat Bentley, Herta Long, Gaea Swinford, Salli Smith and Rev. Stephen Towles
