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Nicole Lopez

Climate Action Otters-MW

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 100 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    1.0
    zero-waste meal
    consumed

Nicole's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Zero-waste Cooking

Reduced Food Waste

I will cook 2 meal(s) with zero-waste each day

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Support Women-Owned Businesses

Sustainable Intensification for Smallholders

I will shop from women-owned business(es) today.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Composting

Composting, Reduced Food Waste

I will start a compost bin where I live.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Practice the 5 R's

Recycling

I will Practice the "5 Rs" — refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, and recycle — to reduce my waste more than I can with just recycling alone.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

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    Nicole Lopez 11/04/2022 2:13 PM
    I just blew someone's mind about how the Berry packaging is not recyclable! He said, "I've been recycling those all my life." I told him that companies are slowly moving to cardboard packaging which is recyclable. So if you can, but those instead of ones that come in plastic packaging.  I just had to share I'm not even sure this counts or not. 
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    Nicole Lopez 10/26/2022 5:59 PM
    I brought my own lunch in my own container. I brought my own fork and cloth napkin from home as well. And I had my emotional support water bottle. 
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    Nicole Lopez 10/24/2022 3:26 PM
    I did my first drop-off at hard-core compost in Santa Cruz. I live in an apartment complex and the California compost law, and it hasn't moved to multi-family complexes just yet. But I have a recycled 5 gal bucket that I keep on my patio and it filled up. I was able to drive it over to hard-core compost on the west side and I got to throw it on to the pile. 
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