More often than not, our resolutions relate to how we plan to make life better for ourselves. This year, resolve to make the world a better place to live in and be a part of.
Kids Konserve’s 2009 Resolutions:
Continue to help reduce the amount of trash going into community landfills.
Help parents to clear their conscience and make life more convenient for them by packing waste-free lunches for their children.
Continue to give back to schools by providing them with fundraising monies that will support their green efforts.
Here’s how Kids Konserve can help you with your green efforts:
Green Your School by jumpstarting a Waste-Free Lunch Challenge with Kids Konserve.
Facts: The average American child generates 67 pounds of lunchtime trash, children’s lunches create 3.5 billion pounds of garbage, and 18,760 pounds of trash are generated each year from the average elementary school. It takes a 15-year-old tree to produce just 700 paper lunch sacks.
Kick the plastic bottle habit by purchasing a reusable stainless steel bottle.
Facts: 50 billion plastic water bottles were consumed last year. 80 percent of these end up in the landfill leaving barely 20% to be recycled. According to NRDC, tests show that bottled water isn’t necessarily safer than tap water, plus the manufacturing and shipping of the bottles gobbles up petroleum and energy and most bottles wind up in landfills or incinerators. Stainless Steel is a good choice, because you don’t have to worry about potentially toxic chemicals that can leach out of many plastics over time. The message in a bottle; Choose to Reuse.
Go waste-free by using a reusable waste-free lunch kit.
Facts: Packing school lunches day after day can be a tedious and seemingly endless chore. But with over 53 million children eating lunch in schools across the country every day, the real burden is on the planet. In fact, the average American child produces 67 pounds of trash each year from school lunch alone. Check out the new Kids Konserve Go Wild patterns and products for making your lunch packing a “greener” one.
Green your birthday party, picnic, and classroom party by using a Kids Konserve Party Pak that contains reusable, dishwasher safe plates, cups, and utensils.
Facts: Birthday parties are a highlight of childhood, but in the past 20 years parties for children have turned into big, waste-producing extravaganzas! Green your event today, inquire at mailto:%20reuse@kidskonserve.com.
Thank you for the warm welcome in 2008 and here's to a Healthy, Happy and Green 2009!!