Cloth Diaper Retailer Cooperative: Raising Green Kids- Green Shopping Tips

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Raising Green Kids- Green Shopping Tips - closed!

Here are a couple of ways to be greener on your next trip to the market:

Buy fresh produce without the packaging.

reuse the plastic produce bags
buy reusable mesh bags
or simply put produce directly into your cart

Avoid individually packaged items.

instead of buying juice boxes, put juice in a reusable thermos, or stainless steel bottle for lunches
pack your snacks and sandwiches in Kanga Sacs reusable bags

Opt for glass, stainless steel or paper products instead of plastic. Glass, stainless steel and paper products are more easily recycled, making them greener products. Paper bags can be reused, recycled or even composted.

Use reusable canvas shopping bags instead plastic. The average person uses roughly 300 plastic bags each year. Many of those plastic bags will end up in a landfill, taking hundreds of years to decompose. Worse yet, they could blow around creating a hazard to wildlife.

Want to win a Kanga Sac from Moms and Bums? CLOSED

How to enter: Become a follower of this blog (mandatory to win) then visit Baby's Bottom Line, Natural Parenting Shop or Moms and Bums and tell me what one other item you would purchase and why. (you can tell us one item from each site for 3 separate entries).
Entrance Guidelines

-Please, be sure to leave us a way to contact you. You can be logged into your email account when you post your comment for us to be able to contact you if you win (that is with the option called OpenID). If you have a blog, be sure to be logged into the account linked to your blog for an easier way to contact you.

You can also add your email to your comments (ie. info(at)momsandbums(dot)com).
-This contest runs until Friday September 24th, 2010 @ 11:59pm EST.
-Winners are chosen using random.org, and notified on Saturday September 25th, winners name will also be posted on Blog and Facebook
-Winners have 7 days from contest end to claim their prize.
-Participation is open to cloth diaper users in CANADA and US ONLY!
-How to earn extra entries:
* LIKE Cloth Diaper Retailer Cooperative On Facebook
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* LIKE Moms and Bums on Facebook
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* Follow @ParentingShop on Twitter
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* Place the CDRC Button on your site or Blog
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* Advertise our Giveaway in your blog, facebook, forums or website (post with your comment the direct link where you posted about it for 1 bonus entry per posting).

Congrats to lucky #13!