Did you know that every year, over 6,000 tons of sunscreen ends up in areas in and around coral reefs? If that sunscreen isn’t made with ocean organisms in mind, that can amount to a lot of environmental damage. Fortunately, chemists and sunscreen manufacturers have figured out how to make sunscreen with less of anContinue reading “Demystifying “Reef Safe””
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Unplastic Your Personal Care
Our bathrooms are full of visible plastics, from toothpaste tubes and floss containers, to shampoo bottles and lip gloss tubes. Plus the synthetic ingredients we can’t readily see. The good news is that nowadays there are lots of comparable swaps that are plastic-free or at least unpackaged. As part of Plastic Free July, we’ll learnContinue reading “Unplastic Your Personal Care”
Unplastic Your Cleaning Routines
Welcome to Plastic Free July, 2026! We’re excited to celebrate low-waste lifestyles and to challenge Gainesville (and beyond) to “unplastic” your daily routines more than ever before, even if just for this month. We love to think about these challenges as an experiment (read more about that here and here), so we invite you toContinue reading “Unplastic Your Cleaning Routines”