(Originally meant to be posted on that day^. Posted today, 2024-10-29/1446-04-26)
Lotta people are going back to school shopping, and I don't want to be a nuisance, however, for the sake of ecological justice, please do your due diligence when buying school supplies. I don't have a solution that doesn't involve creating localized commerce and industry, nothing concrete. I don't have a list of green art supplies. Yes, nylons and plastics are everywhere in products, and yeah, I'm guilty of hypocrisy, complicit in buying plastic products. However, you gotta start somewhere. Don't want to make a hard ask of people. Just please consider.
Don't be passive about buying nylon/plastic laced new backpacks, shoes or clothes. This supports oil/fossil fuel companies. Nylons and plastics are toxic, and people, the environment, kids should be protected from pollutants. Buy natural materials instead. Kids tend to waste their school supplies anyway.
Instead of buying acrylic paints, please teach them to use watercolours instead, WC paints are made of chalk.
Buy metal or wooden utensils, . Or buy raw materials, produce, if you can, make your own clothes,