The world is facing a trash crisis a climate crisis and a plastic crisis and they are all related to our overconsumption.
So few people connect the climate crisis to the purchases they make. Overconsumption is harmful to our air, to our water and to our health. Landfills and incinerators harm our health. We need to stop competing to be just like everyone else. When we shop purchase items that are of high quality and items that will last a long time. None of us need more junk!
Instead of a season of overconsumption and waste, make it a season of friendship, love and community. That doesn’t mean buy me a gift!
Whether it’s choosing to shop secondhand rather than buy new or simply pausing before you hit the checkout button, we can all rethink the way we consume.
This is from the Story of Stuff:
Here’s how you can take action with us:
- Commit to creative reuse: Opt to gift thrifted or refurbished items instead of new. We have the power to slow down the take-make-waste cycle by adding some creativity to holiday shopping. Share your story for a chance to get featured on our social channels.
- Support reuse legislation: Our culture of overconsumption fuels a wasteful, disposable system that corporations like McDonald’s claim to tackle—but their actions tell a different story. Let’s mobilize to pass policies that shift us from single-use waste to a future centered on reusables.
- Unsubscribe from sales communication and unfollow brands on social media: We all get those pesky marketing emails, physical mail, and texts, not to mention an onslaught of social media sales messaging, around the holidays. We encourage you to ditch the noise – join over 2 million people who did here. Catalog Choice is a free, online service that will help you save trees, prevent fraud, and fight junk mail. What’s not to love?
The holiday season doesn’t have to be about more Stuff. Together, we can turn the tide against corporate-driven overconsumption and reclaim the real joy of the holiday season.
Will you join us in reimagining the future?
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