MomMomOnTheGo has accepted the Seventh Generation Green Your Routine challenge. In the next four weeks, the goal is to make our house and family a greener family. Each week there will be something new to try to change to take steps to achieving our goal of being Greener. I will let you know each week what the goals are and I will suggest ways that you can achieve them.
What I am asking from my amazing fans is to take the Green Your Routine Challenge with me. We can all make a difference by being even a little bit Greener. There are also a lot of ways to be Greener and in turn save money. We will talk about saving money by being Greener as we go through the weeks.
Since it takes just two weeks to form a new habit (or break a bad one) we suggest staring this challenge on August 27th, 2012, before heading back to school. Adopting these four small and simple changes can save you money, make a lasting impact on the environment, and positively affect the health of your family.
To give you, my amazing fans and followers, the incentive to join me in the Green Your Routine Challenge, there will be a Seventh Generation giveaway that will be awarded at the end of the challenge. The prize will be a Seventh Generation Starter Kit composed of coupons for a complimentary package of Seventh Generation Free & Clear Dish Soap, Free & Clear Kitchen Spray and 4X Laundry Detergent. Although anyone can do the challenge with me and share their results, the giveaway at the end will only be open to residents of Canada who are over the age of 18 years old and where permitted by local laws to enter and win contests. Please read all the terms and conditions found on the bottom of the Rafflecopter entry form.
So who is in to Green Their Routine along with me?
Did you know that the average Canadian child throws away 66 pounds of lunch packaging waste a year? If you replace all that disposable packaging with a reusable lunch carrier, you’d be saving an average of $250 a year.
Here’s how:
1. Reusable lunch carrier – The SnackTAXI, is a great option in place of a plastic bag many children and adults wrap their lunches in.
2. Reusable containers – Stainless steel, glass, or an alternative wrap like the Wrap‐N‐Mat in place of plastic wrap of foil.
3. Stainless steel or glass drink bottle – Stainless steel, glass or an alternative instead of single‐use cans or juice boxes. Presidents Choices offers double walled travel bottles for $10 available at select Loblaw banner stores including Real Canadian Superstore.
Cost savings
Not only do Litterless Lunches help prevent huge amounts of waste but they also pack a tidy savings punch. Litterless lunches are 35 per cent cheaper than their disposable counterparts. (On average, Ltterless lunches cost $2.65 per day, while disposable lunches weigh in at $4.02 per day. Over the course of a school year, Litterless Lunches net hundreds of dollars worth of savings)Health
According to Health Canada, avoiding pre‐packaged, processed foods reduces your child’s risk of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and kidney disease. The majority of sodium found in the typical diet comes from processed food products, accounting for about 77% of Canadians’ total sodium intake.
That is week one’s Green Your Routine Challenge. My family is committed to try to Green Our Routine and will be sharing each weeks challenge with you. Remember the giveaway and enter below. Let’s show our children how to care for our planet, our health and to make a positive impact.
I’ll start the challenge by using more containers for lunches…less baggies…hopefully get it down to zero by the time school is up and running smoothly.
We already do litterless lunches. We use rubbermaid drink bottles for juice and water, and I have an assortment of tupperware and rubbermaid containers for snacks and sandwiches and they use lunch bags and not paper bags to pack it all in. Have always done it this way
I would love to try the laundry soap
I will start by reusing containers that yogurt, butter etc come in.
Laundry detergent is the one that I would like to try
I already use reusable containers and water bottles when we go out to the park. I sometimes save 32oz yogurt contrainers because they make great storage options for my daughter’s crayons and other small things.
Going to try my hardest to go more green!!
Your laundry detergent is one thing i would like to try!!
i got my kids reusable drinking containers
laundry detergent
we’re already on the litterless lunch boat using a thermos for drinks daily as well as reuseable containers vs. baggies
would like to try the laundry detergent
I will make sure things are all in containers and go a step further by buying things that have little to no packaging as well
(ie bag of raisins vs the bag with little serving sized boxes)
I would like to try all of them!!! The more I have to do my part, the better!
we already recycle containers for lunches and drinks
I’ll start the challenge by using re usable cutlery.
I would like to try the toilet bowl cleaner
I’d like to try their paper towels
I would like to try the 100% Recycled Bathroom Tissue.
I will! I’ll use a recyclable bag, and only reusable containers! Cutlery will be obesity from home, so will bring back to wash…
Bathroom tissue!
Toilet bowl cleaner
I send all the thing in my kids lunches in reuseable containers including thier juice so There is absolutely no garbage
I would like to try the Citrus Hand wash
I pack my daughter’s food all the time in tiny containers. She’s 2 and has multiple allergies.
I have to be ready for any food emergency. : )
One thing I don’t like is that she loves juice boxes. Is there a way to go green there? She doesn’t want juice in a cup. Just a juice box. (so she OFTEN does not get juice. )
Those straws do not last and it’s full of packaging…. But I do use the juice box as an ice pack.
Love the idea of winning kitchen spray and dish soap. I make my own laundry detergent.
I love the handsoaps and dishsoaps. I would love to try their cleaners.
I always use containers for lunches and leftovers. I put my daughter’s juice in a plastic cup. We recycle mostly at home and plan on doing more of that with food scraps that can be put in a special container in the kitchen.
I will send reusable containers and cloth bags instead of the plastic type.
I would love to try the laundry detergent.