Let’s Talk Circular: How Our Food Choices Make an Impact
Tips and TricksLet’s Talk Circular: How Our Food Choices Make an Impact
If you’re serious about sustainability, we encourage you to start thinking circular. While linear models of production take from limited resources and end up as waste, a circular model pulls energy from renewable sources and is based on the rule of the 3 Rs—reduce, reuse, recycle.
We hear a lot about the circular landscape in textiles, but did you know it can be applied to food as well? In fact, food waste that ends up in landfills is one of the biggest producers of methane (a greenhouse gas that’s more powerful than CO2).
Ready to get started on a circular approach to food? It’s easier than you think.
Step 1: Know Your Food
Know what’s in your food and where it’s sourced. Look for whole foods and avoid processed foods—read the ingredients and avoid laundry lists of items you’ve never heard of or can’t pronounce. Shop organic when you can to avoid pesticides that are harmful for the environment and your health.
One of the best things you can do is support your local farms. Join your local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiative and shop at your community’s farmers market. Doing so is great for your local economy and contributes to a smaller carbon footprint. Read Article >>
Grow your own! Nothing tastes better than homegrown produce. Gardening is meditative, educational and fun. If you live in an area that’s not conducive to gardening, consider an indoor garden of herbs or microgreens—like these from Hamama.
Step 2: Watch Your Waste
Every time you toss something in the trash, it doesn’t just disappear. It ends up in a landfill, creating harmful gasses that are contributing to global warming. Opt for reusable and compostable and think circular!
Avoid using single-use plastic bags for food and opt for paper (which can be recycled), reusable, or compostable bags. When you are on-the-go, make sure you have containers, plates, cutlery and food storage options on hand that have little-to-no impact on the environment.
If Your Care Sandwich Bags are uncoated + toxic-free greaseproof bags are made from unbleached pulp of Scandinavian spruce trees—a natural, renewable resource.
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Stasher Silicone Sandwich Bags are perfect for meal prepping and packing your lunch, or just trying to keep your tinted moisturizer from exploding into your gym bag.
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Start your journey into composting! It’s easier than you might think. Plus it keeps food out of our landfills and methane gasses out of our atmosphere. Then, use your compost in your garden. It doesn’t get more circular than that!
Full Circle Odor-free Compost Collector is easy to clean and empty, opens with the push of a button, and the patented design lets air flow through for less odor and fewer flies.
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The Full Circle Scrap Happy Compost Bin might just become your new best friend. Its flexible silicone design and easy-to-attach feature makes it a go-to compost tool.
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Step 3: Love Your Plants
Animal agriculture is a leading cause of harmful levels of CO2, methane gas, and excrement that damage our air and waterways. The best thing you can do is eat entirely plant based, however, we know that model doesn’t always work for everyone.
Research the meat you eat and opt for pasture raised beef, where animals are allowed to graze outside. Eat smaller portions or limit the amount of meat you consume in a week.
Consider joining Sheila Morovati’s #8meals Challenge and swap out eight meals each week with plant-based options instead. This app makes it easy.
Pick up Superlife by Darin Olien. Olien has traveled the world, exploring the health properties of foods that have sustained indigenous cultures for centuries. Putting his research into practice, he has created a unique and proven formula for maximizing our bodies’ potential. He also includes a “How-to-eat” user’s guide with a shopping list, advice on “what to throw away,” a guide to creating a healthy, balanced diet plan, and advice on how to use supplements effectively.
