PACT Review

One of the features I want to introduce on Trees and Honeybees is company reviews. As environmentalism becomes trendy (yeah!) more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon which can sometimes make it hard to weed out those who truly believe in the cause and those that are greenwashing (boo!).

** This post has been updated on 04/06/21. Please scroll to the bottom of the review to see my updates**

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DIY T-Shirt Bags

So last week’s produce bag DIY was a little fancier than the bags that I started with last year. As I had mentioned, I cleaned out my closet early in 2019 and I had a lot of t-shirts left. I had already done a big t-shirt clean out a few years back and made a t-shirt quilt (my absolute favorite use for shirts that have meaning to you- old concert t-shirts, yours first marathon, etc.) but extra t-shirts have a sneaky way of making their way into a closet. One second your closet is nicely organized with pieces you actually wear, the next you have free t-shirts from charities you went to, Kickstarter campaigns you sponsored or gifts someone gave you. And guess what? You never wear them!

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Reusable Bottles

One of the first changes that everyone talks about when going zero-waste is to switch to a reusable water bottle and I whole heartily agree. When I did my first beach clean up a few years back, I was pretty surprised to see that one of the most common items on the beach was plastic bottle caps. Often, they are too small to go through recycling machines, if they are recycled at all. About 6 billion pounds of plastic bottles get thrown away every year, and only 30% get recycled. YIKES!

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