Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk into Cheese for Farmers:
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/struggling-farmers-turn-excess-milk-into-cheese-for-the-hungry/
World's First Pay What You Can Grocery Store
And many more from The Good News Network!
Changing our wasteful habits, one company at a time. Reducing, reusing, repurposing.
Nike Uses 18 Recycled Plastic Bottles To Make Each New Uniform For The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7122056
Adidas has produced the first ever football jerseys made out of upcycled or reused materials.
The jerseys will be used at the University of Miami football team for their 2018 sports season. And seen starting with their game against Louisiana state in September.
The uniforms are made 70% out of a raw yarn material that is woven from fishing nets and other kinds of debris recovered from oceanic environments.
Airlines and others are now creating their uniforms and other logo items using similar ideas.
Reduce. Remake, Reuse: good for the environment, our landfills and a good way for all of to look at the waste on our lives and find ways to decrease waste in our lives, in our trash, and in our landfills.
I'm always wary every time an airline does some sort of green publicity stunt. They know air travel isn't green, so they're keen to show they're green in other ways. I don't think it balances out, though.
Still, it's good to reduce, reuse and recycle whenever possible. And remember it goes in that order. Don't recycle when you could reduce.
Absolutely, Maria. Businesses are always there to make money and look good in the process. But as you said, it's good in its own way. Wish they'd lower prices as their good deed but helping landfills and the environment is better than nothing good at all!
Hoping doing true good by some will encourage enough others to follow the money and tip many scales to encourage reduction of waste not our seat sizes and leg room!
New to me, share tables at schools. Unwanted non-perishable food can be placed on the share table by students and then other students can take what they wish. This combats food waste and child hunger.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a46885/school-share-tables/
Wow, Lovedures That's just great, I love that.
I can remember as a child only having a sandwich and being done eating and watching others as they ate whole apples, bananas, or even a cookie and trying so quietly to be inconspicuous but yearning to be and have what others had.
Times weren't easy growing up in Alaska in the 50s and 60s. We were lucky to have what we did have, and make do with what we had! Now, i realize it was the best my mom could do with 5 kids needing a sack lunch day after day.
Most schools here in Oregon are so afraid of shared food in schools we havent been to have home baked goods for school parties. Fear of allergies, germs, dangers of lawsuits because of "Risk Management" now.
But on the positive side, we do have free paperbag lunches all summer long and every day, in parks and schools for anyone who needs one, no questions asked.
During these times there are many kids who frankly aren't provided or don't have food in their houses due to lack of money at different times.
Statistically, many kids report it was their only meal of the day. And districts started a simple and small but free sack lunch available for kids without any lunch at all at school.
Thanks for those links Michele, such a positive website. That's much needed amongst all the news stories of gloom and doom!:)
Thank you, Blue. I loved discovering that site. There are a number that I subscribe too just for the reminder and uplift.
Michele, thanks for sharing your story about growing up in a Alaska. I think it is wonderful when schools have something for those who point have a lunch.n I think a share table can work well with non perishable food which is packaged or fresh fruit. SO many lessons are able to be learned from a share table.
Well, I searched for good news today (much needed) and found this awesome fact.
Katherine Johnson ( the NASA human computer) celebrates her 100th birthday today. A very Happy Birthday to Ms. Johnson, an icon for so many.
https://www.space.com/41638-katherine-johnson-celebrates-100th-birthday.html