As fall arrives with changing leaves and cooler weather, it's a perfect time to embrace sustainable practices that complement the season. Whether you are cooking delicious seasonal meals or decorating for the holidays, there are many ways to reduce waste and make eco-friendly choices.
These fall and winter sustainability tips can help you to enjoy the season while doing so in a more environmentally conscious way!
Composting or Mulching With Your Leaves and Sticks
As the seasons shift and leaves fall, consider some sustainable alternatives to bagging and discarding yard waste, like composting fallen leaves and small sticks, using leaves as mulch around perennials or to cover garden beds for winter, and repurposing sticks as kindling for your backyard fire pit or campfire.
Eat Seasonally and Support Local Community Agriculture Programs
This fall, experiment with tailoring recipes to incorporate local seasonal produce like apples, squash, pumpkin, kale, and root vegetables. Sourcing seasonal foods from local farmers' markets and CSA programs can help to support your local community while limiting transportation emissions and other environmental impacts associated with larger food systems. (For more seasonal eating tips, check out our previous article HERE.)
Zero-waste Holiday Meals
As fall and winter approach, many of us look forward to gathering with loved ones, often around a shared meal! While single-use plates, utensils, and trays offer convenience, there can be a lot of extra waste generated. This holiday season, consider a zero-waste approach to your gatherings by using reusable dishes, cutlery, napkins, and more. Saving or sharing leftovers helps to ensure limited food waste during the season as well!
Nature-Based Decorating
Transform your home for the fall and winter seasons with sustainable, natural decor. Crafting your own decorations from materials like pinecones, gourds, cinnamon sticks, dried citrus, cranberries, and evergreen boughs is a fun and festive way to avoid new plastic decorations while adding a touch of nature to your space.
Getting Outdoors
Before the weather gets too cold, enjoy some extra walking or biking as a way to get around town, and to enjoy the fresh, crisp air and changing colors of the leaves! While this isn’t always an option, it can be a chance to get outside, get moving, and avoid extra emissions before the winter cold settles in. Spending time outdoors continues to remind us of why caring for our planet is so important.
Layer Smartly and Clean Out Responsibly
If you are looking for layering pieces to keep you warm this fall and winter, shop sustainably! At Recover, our fall and winter styles are made with low-waste, certified, recycled materials in our HyperLocal supply chain, to ensure we’re delivering on our mission to outfit everyone with apparel and gear for the biggest positive impact possible. To stay warm (and eco-friendly), check out our Women’s Layers HERE and Men’s Layers HERE!
Additionally, if you are looking to clean out your closet during the holiday season, consider recycling your old tees with us as well through our 360° Closed Loop Program. Through this program, we recycle old tees into new material that can be used again in our supply chain to create circular gear!
How it works:
Purchase a Closed Loop Mailer from our website HERE
Fill it up with your old cotton or polyester tees
Drop it off at your closest UPS location
Receive a $10 store credit to use on our website
Fall is a season of transition, which can be a great reminder that small shifts in all of our daily lives can have a lasting impact. Whether it’s composting leaves, cooking with local produce, decorating naturally, or appreciating the outdoors, there are many ways to come together to enjoy the season more sustainably.
