At Barefruit Marketing we are proud supporters of Ballina’s ‘Reduce Single Use’ challenge. In collaboration with Ballina Shire Council and Waste Warriors, we initiated the challenge to get other businesses on board after our own successful office challenge.
At the beginning of 2018, the Barefruit team watched a documentary called ‘A Plastic Ocean’. It had a profound effect – we were horrified and saddened by what we learned, and deeply inspired to create change. A new mindset was born within the office…
The Barefruit mindset, a forever habit, or our planet will get sick, and so will our animals and children and their children…
We realised how much we were contributing to the problem by using single use coffee cups, takeaway containers and food packaging, so we started an office challenge. We purchased reusable coffee cups, drink bottles and shopping bags for the team, and set up the following rules:
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- NO single use plastics
- NO disposable coffee cups – only reusable cups to be used
- reuse coffee carrying trays
- BYO bowl/crockery to local cafes
- Sustainable switches
- reusable rags instead of paper towels
- keep cups
- reusable shopping bags
- metal straws over single-use plastic ones
- reusable cutlery and plates over toss-away versions
- beeswax wraps instead of plastic wrap
- Composting food scraps
- NO single use plastics
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- Double-sided printing policy
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- Car sharing/pooling to meetings
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- Dropbox filing system instead of paper filing
- Correct recycling
Breaking the above rules = 10 burpees (in the office)
Within no time, this new way of thinking was second nature, and our waste has become minimal.
Have you joined the Reduce Single Use Challenge yet? Head over to @reducesingleuse to sign up your business and see how much of a difference you can make. We are proud supporters of this great initiative 
#reducesingleuseballina
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