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Tip #3: Leftovers
==Whe n you and your family go out to eat, do you get your leftovers to go? If you do, I’ll bet they give you one of those Styrofoam or cardboard boxes, right? Well, the average American throws away 35 pounds of used textiles a year, for a total of 9 billion pounds in the U.S. each year. About 50 % of all municipal (city) waste is discarded packaging. We can help get those numbers down! So, if you do get a doggie bag, **get in the habit of bringing your own Tupperware or storage containers**. Also, if you get take-out, ask for no bag, utensils, napkins, etc.. You have all of that at home, and you know it’ll only wind up in the trash!  ==

==All it takes is practicing this tip three times to get a signature, and hopefully it’ll become a habit for you and your family! ==

= = =Tip #2: Reusable Bags = ==Close to a trillion plastic bags are used worldwide each year. The U.S. uses about a hundred billion of those. That’s almost 1,000 bags per household a year! ==

 Fewer than 3% of these bags are recycled.
==Convince your parents to use a reusable shopping bag for the grocery store. You can use old plastic bags or a reusable canvas bag, and keep it in the car when they're not using it! ==


=**Tip #1:** Stainless Steel Water bottles =

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(37, 36, 107);"><span style="font-size: 160%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(29, 116, 21);">get your green sheet signed if your family does this or starts doing it! When you have 5 tips signed, you get a HW pass! ======