Plastic Free Challenge

Kickstart your plastic-free journey, join the Plastic-Free Challenge along with your Washington County neighbors this February. Check out these titles to help inspire ways to reduce plastic in your household!

Updated January 9, 2025
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Plastic free : the inspiring story of a global environmental movement and why it matters
Prince-Ruiz, Rebecca
Paper Book
*Winner of the Australian Book Design Award 2021: Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover* 'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?' When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz asked her colleagues this question in 2011, she had no idea that less...
Waste not everyday
Rhoads, Erin
Paper Book
A waste-free lifestyle is actually achievable--for everyone, every budget and every schedule. Not ready to dive straight into composting, or to go totally plastic-free yet? Waste Not Everyday is your step-by-step, day-by-day guide to simple, progressive lifestyle changes that will have a big effect...
Recycling In The Garden: Reusing Everyday Items
Youngman, Angela.
Paper Book
People are becoming more aware of the environment and their impact on it. Over the past decades we have become an increasingly consumerist based society. From a world in which recycling was common, single use became the norm. This throwaway society is unsustainable.Sustainable gardening results in...
Kids vs. plastic : ditch the straw and find the pollution solution to bottles, bags, and other single-use plastics : how you can be a waste warrior!
Beer, Julie (Children's author)
Paper Book
Jam-packed with surprising information about plastic's effect on the environment, plus loads of practical ways kids can cut down on their plastic footprint, this is the kids guide to being part of the pollution solution! It's in your toothbrush ... your clothes ... your...
Living without plastic : more than 100 easy swaps for home, travel, dining, holidays, and beyond
Allen, Brigette
Paper Book
"An eye-opening guide on how to lessen one's dependence on plastics. . . . This is a clarion, convincing wake-up call to the scope of the global plastic problem and what readers can do about it.  --Publishers Weekly Embrace a plastic-free lifestyle with...
How to give up plastic : a guide to saving the world, one plastic bottle at a time
McCallum, Will
Paper Book
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. ...
This book is not rubbish
Thomas, Isabel
Paper Book
Discover how YOU can ditch plastic, reduce rubbish and become an eco-warrior, not an eco-worrier, with 50 practical tips to really make a difference! Our planet is in peril and it needs your help! But the good news is that there are loads of easy ways...
Year of no garbage : recycling lies, plastic problems, and one woman's trashy journey to zero waste : a memoir
Schaub, Eve O.
Paper Book
"Eve's brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we've become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better." --Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July Year of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the...

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