On my walk this morning I found no trash , no plastic bottles but park seem to be full of people because of cool weather.
Talk to a few people about how clean the park was today and this was a good day to end the challenge.
I will keep up the challenge this year

I joined the Eco Challenge to learn about how to make July plastic-free. I did not expect to get into it as much as I did. The more I learned, the more I was drawn to learn more. I heard about and have signed up to volunteer in two organizations because of this month-long focus that became a daily habit: a food rescue organization and a ministry to make mats for the homeless out of one-time-use bags.

Had a great EcoChallenge conversation with a friend over lunch where I told her how our country & others send our trash to poor countries causing them to live with it. She said that is really “not loving our neighbor” as the Bible tells us to do. It perfectly summed up what bothers me most about the plastics problem. I cannot unsee the images from the videos I’ve watched during this great learning program.

Long walk today a lot of trash and bottles found must be because of the heat. Its good people are getting out early and drinking water but need to pick up after them selves.

Long park walk lot of trash and plastic bottles today must be because of the heat.

The more I learn about plastics and the absolute OVERWHELM that our world is experiencing, I keep picturing those rubber duckie races and community games with hundreds or thousands of rubber duckies sent downstream. I watched a documentary that showed rubber duckies washing ashore in tropical islands. We need to stop this one practice alone! (I couldn't find the image that I was picturing but here is one from a swimming pool that at least didn't send them into the abyss!)

Talked to friends as we did our Tuesday volunteering about bring our reusable bottles to work and drinking water during this heat spell.