START YOUR ZERO WASTE JOURNEY!
MAKE YOUR OWN WASTE REDUCTION SHOPPING KITS!

Thursday, January 2nd, 2020

Free

The Food Co-op Annex, 2110 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend

11am -1pm

We will be focusing on easy ways to prepare yourself for daily/weekly trips to the grocery store. Combining what you already have in your home with a few supplementary materials, we will craft a full set of recycled, environmentally friendly and reusable products. From grocery bags made out of old tee-shirts, to bee’s wax wrap, to labeled, recycled jars, we will sew, snip, tie and dip our way to sustainability. We know that it’s easy to forget your bags or your empty jars for peanut butter at home, but after
today you will have a shopping kit all ready to go either by your door or in your car whenever you need to pick up some groceries for your week. The average family takes home 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year according to the Center for Biological Diversity and grocery stores are a large contributor. It is
vastly overwhelming to look at the big picture, but if each of us take small steps in order to minimize our waste, the impact will be huge.

About the Instructor

Lily O’Shea is a 17 year old senior at Port Townsend High School.
She has a passion for sustainability and loves to create arts and crafts. This
class is part of her senior project. While Lily plans on going into the
sciences in college, she intends to incorporate waste reduction and fighting
for the health of the earth into her future in any way she can.