They live in homemade dome tents built with sticks and hung with pieces of plastic or a cloth flapping in the wind, feeble shelter from scorching daytime temperatures that reach 120 degrees.

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To even further reduce your plastic consumption, use cloth or muslin bags for your bulk items.

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Through a campaign of talks and film screenings she persuaded all of the 34 shops in the town to substitute plastic bags with reusable cloth bags.

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For those few readers who do not yet know, Beanie Babies are sleek cloth animals about the size of a small weasel, loosely stuffed with small plastic pebbles.

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Buying organic baby carrots in bulk and packaging them into reusable cloth snack packs is more expensive AND takes longer than buying baby carrots wrapped in extra plastic that you can just grab and throw into a lunch box.

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