Justin Giuffrida(cho104)

YCP Fall 2023

POINTS TOTAL

0 TODAY
0 THIS WEEK
225 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

10

miles

not traveled by car
UP TO

52

pounds of CO2

have been saved
UP TO

16

plastic containers

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

18

plastic straws

not sent to the landfill
UP TO

26

plastic bottles

not sent to the landfill

Justin's actions

Waste

Use a Reusable Water Bottle

I will keep 5 disposable plastic bottle(s) from entering the waste stream by using a reusable water bottle.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Reduce Single-Use Disposables

Cheap, single-use items and disposable packaging end up blowing around as litter more often in poor and POC-majority neighborhoods. I will find out how I can limit single-use items and do my best to limit the waste I generate.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion

I will learn about sustainable fashion and begin trying to practice it in my own life.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Water

Say No to Plastic Straws

An estimated 71% of seabirds and 30% of turtles have been found with plastics in their stomachs. When they ingest plastic, marine life has a 50% mortality rate. By asking for no straw when placing a drink order, I will keep 6 plastic straw(s) of out of the ocean each day.

COMPLETED 4
DAILY ACTIONS

Simplicity

Core Values

We may find more meaning and joy in life when our actions are aligned with our personal values. I will determine what my top 3-5 core values are so that I can better align my actions with them.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Transportation

Work from Home

I will work from home 1 day(s) to avoid my commute's carbon output.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

REFLECTION QUESTION
Transportation

It takes the average worker in the United States 26 minutes to travel to work. One way to fix long commutes would be to make cities more affordable. An even simpler option: promote the use of telework. How have you used technology to replace in-person meetings or work this year?
Justin Giuffrida(cho104) 10/18/2023 12:31 PM
I don't feel as if this is really possible to replace work with telework since most jobs actually can't be replaced due to them demanding in person service. unless we had eco-friendly transportation (faster than bike riding and walking) which I don't see happening in the foreseeable future, but maybe will become a blessing, we will have to use cars, trains, busses and whatnot. This being said, I have missed a couple of classes leaving time for me to do my homework and teach myself the lectures instead of driving to school. Being that everything is given to us in the first place, and we often have to reteach ourselves the lectures multiple times anyways. This in sense being like telework leaving me able to not damage our environment with my gas driven car as transportation.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Water

What single-use items (e.g. straws, coffee cups, vegetable bags, plastic bags) do you regularly use? What could be substituted instead?
Justin Giuffrida(cho104) 10/16/2023 11:23 AM
I regularly use Plastic straws, cups, baggage, and more, and I can substitute them all with reuseable alternatives.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste

While water bottles are needed for health and safety in certain places, we can do more to reduce the unnecessary use of them. What are the barriers to you using reusable bottles and tap water instead of bottled water? How could you make this a permanent habit?
Justin Giuffrida(cho104) 10/16/2023 11:21 AM
It's definitely harder to carry a big reuseable bottle around all day, but with my backpack and simple act of remembering, soon it will be muscle memory to always have the bottle by my side.

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- Rachael Clarke 10/16/2023 4:40 PM
  I have found that making my water bottle and reusable mugs more special to me by adding stickers has helped me want to use them more often and helps me remember them
  
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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste

What single-use items (e.g. straws, coffee cups, vegetable bags, plastic bags) do you regularly use? What did you substitute or could be substituted instead?
Justin Giuffrida(cho104) 10/16/2023 11:19 AM
Water bottles/plastic bottles and plastic bags. I use a reuseable bottle and a backpack/reuseable bags.

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