Oregon’s Challenge Posts

Plastic Challenge: Kelly , Week 1
Getting family members on board! I’m not the main shopper in the family so this could be a challenge. Location:Portland, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 49
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 48
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 43
How to reduce waste when you’re super super busy. Do you know any charities that by default don’t put you on a mailing list when you donate? I’d like to support such organizations if they exist. Something comparable to emergen-c or airborne to boost immune system. My understanding is that the liquid form is absorbed [...]
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 30
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 29
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 28
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 27
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 26
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 25
Any way to recycle credit cards? Google kept coming up with references to Earthworks System, but their website won’t load. See an article/link: http://www.recyclescene.com/how-to-recycle/recycle-gift-cards Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 24
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 23
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 22
My plastic tally weeks go from Friday through Thursday. This week starts the day after Thanksgiving, where I just went to Goodwill so have a few tag fasteners from that. Then Saturday I went to Mexico for a week. :) I went to a vegan yoga retreat; I heard one of the organizers describe the [...]
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 21
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 20
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 19
Do you bring your own containers to restaurants for a doggy bag? What are the servers’ reactions? Is it as accepted as reusable bags at a store? Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 18
Toilet cleaning – I’m simply not ok with a cleaning brush that sits in my bathroom after being used to scrub a toilet. I use the wand that clips onto a scrubbing thing with cleaner that you flush when you’re done. Any idea of something that’s disposable but doesn’t come packaged in plastic? Location:Tualatin, Oregon, [...]
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 17
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 16
Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Plastic Challenge: Margaret, Week 15
Just a comment – most of the waste from this week is because I bought a new cell phone. Location:Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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