Precious Plastic Alabama

Precious Plastic Alabama is a justice-oriented outreach initiative that hopes to offer recycling alternatives while encouraging habit change.

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

I’m so grateful to ALL the many hands that help collect, sort, transport and store #5 plastics each month, especially @birminghamsculpture . We have over 20 super sacks full for @neowaste.llc !!

#findyourfives #ppal #preciousplasticalabama #neowaste #wearehwd

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

YOU DID IT!
You filled this candy and snack wrapper Zero Waste Box from @terracycle that the PTO bought for our school! (Thank you @shadescahabaelementarypto )!!!
Now go brush and floss.
#terracycle #shadescahabapto #towardszerowaste #ppal #scway #wearehwd

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

Thank you, Delta, for PAWS UP helping us recycle empty toothpaste tubes through @terracycle !!
Speak for yourself, and others when needed...but NOT with stinky breath. #wearehwd #scway #shadescahabapto #ppal #terracycle

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

Way to go taping your alkaline battery ends to be recycled in the Zero Waste box from @terracycle ! Thanks SCE PTO for buying this zero waste box. It’s totally the “Shades Cahaba Way.”
#scway #wearehwd #shadescahabapto #stopbuyingsomanyalkalinebatteries #butifyoumustthenrecycle

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

Thank you friend for brushing your teeth & recycling your tube with @terracycle in our special box @shadescahaba !!
Terracycle pays shipping and works with @colgate for you to mail any brand used toothbrush and paste! So you too can do this!!
#scway #wearehwd #nomorestinkybreath

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

I did it.
I signed up for @kineticrecycling for glass pick up recycling.
For just $10 a month, Kinetic Recycling provides a bin and pick up service every time your bin is full.
Join me by subscribing to Kinetic!!
#babystepstosavetheearth #integrityisexpensivesometimes #soworthit

[Preston Perry @Preston_n_Perry]

At the pool today. My 5 year Eden said to this little white boy-

I’m brown and your white but we can still be friends.

The things us dumb adults can learn from Children.

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

We love @urbancookhouse_homewood &ate every bite of our delicious meal. Now for the waste stream breakdown:
-Plastic bag recycle @Target or @Publix
-Styrofoam WHEN CLEAN can go to bin outside Publix
-condiment cups &lids are UNMARKED, after cleaned they can be re-used.
Thanks!

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

Teachers &staff are busy preparing $cleaning to greet our students next week! I’m grateful to the @shadescahabaelementarypto at @shadescahaba & @terracycle for this box to recycle empty coffee bags. Caffeinated prep work is so much better than non-caff...
#scway #WeAreHWD #hwdcs

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

Teachers are hard at work preparing for the 2020-21 school year, AND not polluting the earth. For PE, Coaches have ordered new equipment, & put old equipment in the bin purchased by the PTO to send to @Terracycle to recycle the flattened balls &broken jump ropes. Go Team!

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

What are we eating for dinner?
Hooray for food! NOT HOORAY for the packaging.
This is JUST #5 plastic take-out containers.
Thank you @zoeskitchen for compostable packaging!
Collect #5 plastics, which CANNOT go in your curbside bin.
#zoeskitchen #reducesingleuseplastic

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

https://t.co/sZ8alxRjgT

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

That's a lot of yogurt.
We need these companies to consider a take-back program. @closetheloop with @terracycle is already doing it.
You can sign up for a spot on the Loop global waiting list! After another cup of yogurt, of course...
#yoplait #dannon #chobani #Stonyfield #publix

[DMBnews.net @DMBnewsnet]

Dave Matthews will play a live stream concert tomorrow night to benefit small businesses affected by the pandemic: https://t.co/Juug61o3DY #DMB

[NPR @NPR]

Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

The magazine says it chose Thungberg for raising the alarm on climate change and "showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads."
https://t.co/dV8kQ0J6Tg

[Clean Up Project @CleanUpProject2]

🎁 Gift wrap, #plasticfree:

Instead of plastic bags, glittered or plastic-coated wrapping papers, bows & stickers - all of which quickly becomes garbage - choose natural materials, paper bags and wrapping, natural… https://t.co/UzNRimR9Jb

[Clean Up Project @CleanUpProject2]

We’ve been testing out “reusable swabs” for a few weeks and here’s what we think:

While we usually bought the swabs with a paper stick (why do they even make them with plastic anyway 🙄), we were still tossing them… https://t.co/6SBDD2NXih

[Shades Cahaba @ShadesCahaba]

Our Writer Wednesday and Thunderbolt Thursday character card winners in the auditorium this morning! #scway https://t.co/McQ4vPnfEC

[Precious Plastic Alabama @PlasticAlabama]

Thanks @filterbham for using #1 plastic cups so we can recycle curbside!
Your iced chai latte was exactly what I needed yesterday afternoon...
#preciousplasticalabama #bhamsculpture #reducesingleuseplastic #filterbham