Your best climate-friendly day ever
Pack a sack lunch rather than purchasing a takeout salad or sandwich, which usually comes in one-time-use plastic clamshell packaging. Think toting a lunch box is boring? Scores of attractive, chic lunch-box kits are available in natural products stores, and many are made with indestructible stainless steel, glass or medical-grade silicone—inert substances with no risk of chemical leaching.
Additionally, if you use a straw when drinking, bring your own. According to the advocacy group Straw Free, 500 million—yes, million!—straws are thrown away every day in the United States alone, making plastic straws, incredibly, one of the top ten pieces of garbage polluting the ocean. Use a more sustainable compostable, bamboo, glass or stainless-steel straw.