Avocados and Cement

In addition to old recycling habits, I started adopting new ones. 

Instead of buying new, plastic flowering pots, my mom and I took a lot of random plastic containers we had been storing in our garage, and filled them with various plants.  I also started growing my avocado plants in old espresso cups instead of trying to buy new cups. Since we have around 13-15 plants in our house, if we had gotten 13 pieces of new plastic, imagine how much unnecessary plastic that would've been.

I realized that although it's hard to avoid buying non biodegradable items, there are many ways to implement them into useful resources. 

Another example that we recently adopted: my mom took old shirts and turned them into masks instead of buying unnecessary fabric. My dad took old milk cartons and turned into small "shovels" which proved to be pretty useful and sturdy when he worked with cement. 

I thought these were very small and minimal efforts on our part but it was nice to know that these actions did make a change.