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...
Life without plastic : the practical step-by-step guide to avoiding plastic to keep your family and the planet healthy
Plamondon, Chantal
Paper Book
After the birth of their son, Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon set out on a journey to eliminate plastic baby bottles as the Canadian government moved to ban BPA. When they found it was difficult to procure glass baby bottles, Jay and Chantal made it their mission to not only find glass and metal...
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...
The last plastic straw : a plastic problem and finding ways to fix it
Romito, Dee
Paper Book
Learn how and why a useful, 5000-year-old invention has become a threat to our planet--and what you can do about it--in this history of the simple straw. From reeds used by ancient Sumerians to bendy straws in World War II hospitals, people have changed the straw to fit their...

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