Packing a No Waste Lunch is healthy eco-friendly and more economical than buying prepackaged food.   The average disposable “brown bag” lunch creates between 4–8 ounces of garbage everyday. That can add up to as much as 100 pounds per year!  Not only do prepackaged and processed foods contain excess packaging, they are also up to 25% more expensive.  And with the alarming increase of childhood obesity and diabetes, it’s more important than ever to teach healthy eating habits, especially when bringing your own lunch can save you money too.  

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Top Ten Eco-Friendly Choices

Living green is about
changing habits. It takes some practice at first, but by referring to
the list below you can start making the changes that are most doable
for you, and just add on from there. It really is a process, but once
you start, it’s addictive! The feel-good benefits of connecting to the
earth and saving our planet for future generations tend to outweigh
initial efforts that so often come with change.

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1) It takes approximately three 8oz bottles of water to make one disposable plastic bottle…so that we can get 8oz of hydration.
2) Approximately
1.5 million barrels of oil—enough to run 100,000 cars for a whole
year—are used to make plastic water bottles, while transporting these
bottles burns even more oil. Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of
the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce
and transport the bottle.

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Nubius Organics new Coupon code for Greenopolis users! Now Save an extra 10% off with the coupon code: ECO10

Nubius is an e-tailer of the most popular reusable bags and bottles including Klean Kanteen, Envirosax, SIGG, EcoUsable and more.

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http://www.storyofstuff.com/ - Watch a compelling presentation about
consumption and the life cycle of the stuff we make and buy. This is
really well put together and although it has a few inaccuracies, is
done with a little humor to get the message across better.

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