During the month, I contacted our local MLB team after attending a promo shirt giveaway night where every shirt came in its own, individual poly bag; which meant that 20,000 poly bags were involved in this promo night. Their Senior VP contacted me yesterday in response to let me know they will work with their printers in the future to ensure that never happens again. Biggest win of the month for me, by far!

Brought my own lunch to volunteer today in reusable Tupperware. 

Picniced today with finger foods and no
Beverage throw aways.

I used silverware and brought it home to clean. No plastic throw away.
Chris Martin 

Worked at the zoo for 6 hours as a volunteer 

Ordered a drink at the restaurant and told them to keep the straw.

Wow many people who visit our Milwaukee county zoo remark favorably when I pick up litter off the floor. They have never visited a zoo that was kept so clean. I like to recycle 
the items I find and hope people are safer by picking up trash.
Chris Martin 

For those of you who want to make the case that local restaurants/bars go straw-free, see this link for a resource:
http://oceanic.global/oceanic-standard/

You can download the Oceanic Standard Toolkit on this page; Part 3 may be a useful guide that you can share with those restaurants who may be considering the change.

When I stopped for lunch today, I decided to eat there, so that it would be "real" bowls and silverware, rather than plastic. I was so disappointed when I discovered that requesting salad dressing "on the side" meant they'd serve it in little plastic cups. not a real one. Sigh. But I did bring the cups back to work with me so I could rinse and recycle them...

Went out picking for the first time yesterday with some others in admin. Glad to be making a difference around our zoo and happy to say the ones who always go out picking do a great job since there was hardly any plastic/litter laying around.