Coffee Cup Sleeve Waste-no-more

According to HelpingHaven.com, "It’s estimated that 14 billion cups of coffee are served every year wrapped in a single-use, cardboard coffee sleeve, which adds up to 2.8 billion pounds of trash."

Personally, I made it my mission to bring reusable shopping bags to the grocery store to help eliminate plastic bag waste from landfills. It is a simple step in cleaning up our world that many of us have successfully accomplished.

As I buy at least 3 cups of coffee per day, and do try to bring my own cup, I still fail at the cardboard sleeve part. I save them when I can and have a little stack in my car that I do reuse.
But, it's these little things that really make a difference! Starbucks sells reusable sleeves now and I have also been tempted to knit my own, as I have seen on Canadian Living.

I was able to make the reusable shopping bag thing a habit. My new mission: I'm breaking out the crochet hook. No more cardboard sleeves for me. AND, I'm making one for all my friends.
This one I just whipped up in under one hour. Of course, it's green :)

A Greener Little Lunch ~ "Reduce your daily lunchprint" with LunchSkins

Durable, reusable and easy-on-the-eyes isn't all these little LunchSkins have going for them.

Made responsibly in the USA, these reusable sandwich/snack/just-about-anything bags are replacing the plastic bags that get thrown out daily. In fact, in just one year, LunchSkins customers have eliminated more than 12 million plastic baggies from the landfills!

Aside from giving back to nature, Three Green Moms is donating 1% of online sales profits to the C&O Canal Trust, an organization formed to protect and restore the historic C&O Canal near the nation's capital, a trash-free national park (canaltrust.org for more info)

Right now online, you can save 20% on select styles. Visit the website to purchase LunchSkins for your little one's lunch. It's the little things that make a BIG difference in OUR world.