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Here are some easy ways that you can incorporate sustainable living habits into your daily lives.<\/p>\n
Bring your own bag to the grocery store <\/strong><\/p>\n Bring a reusable bag to the grocery store so that you don\u2019t go through a load of plastic bags every weekend.<\/p>\n Reduce food waste <\/strong><\/p>\n Buy only what you need. Freeze your food so that it doesn\u2019t go bad and use your leftovers to make sandwiches and soups! You could also donate non-perishable food items that you\u2019re not going to eat to a local food bank.<\/p>\n Stock up on food in the bulk food aisle <\/strong><\/p>\n This not only saves money but also helps reduce packaging waste. Some stores might even allow you to use your own container to buy the food. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Reusable containers <\/strong><\/p>\n Bring an empty reusable container when you eat out so that you have the option of packing up your leftovers in it instead of using up more plastic packaging.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t pour cooking oil down the drain <\/strong><\/p>\n Make sure you dispose of cooking oil properly so that it doesn\u2019t clog the drain. An alternative can be using an air fryer.<\/p>\n Reusable sponges <\/strong><\/p>\n Wash your dishes with reusable sponges instead of regular ones.<\/p>\n Second-hand shopping <\/strong><\/p>\n This isn\u2019t only more eco-friendly but you can also find some pretty cool items while thrifting!<\/p>\n Plastic cutlery <\/strong><\/p>\n When ordering food, add a note that you won\u2019t be needing any plastic cutlery. We all have that kitchen drawer filled with useless plastic knives, forks and spoons that we rarely end up using.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When ordering food, add a note that you won\u2019t be needing any plastic cutlery. We all have that kitchen drawer filled with useless plastic knives, forks and spoons that we rarely end up using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-eco-friendly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}