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Take Action to Protect Raccoons
Protect raccoons by making sure that you rinse all your recycling and garbage before putting it outside. Make sure that the lids on your bins are extremely secure; raccoons are excellent at sneaking into bins that you thought were raccoon proof!
By completing ‘Eco Activity #10: Timed trash pickup’, you can help keep litter away from wild animals, like the raccoon! Rummaging through human garbage and eating scraps is not healthy for raccoons and definitely does not match their natural diet.
If you would like to take your action a step further, become an Earth Ranger to access the Food Waste Warriors Mission! This Mission works at addressing food waste and all the problems that come with it! Producing food takes A LOT of energy to begin with - what’s worse is that when food is wasted and sent to the landfill, it breaks down and releases harmful greenhouse gases, like methane, which contributes to climate change! By completing this mission you will be able to increase your awareness about the food waste your family generates and try to make a change for the better! Not only that, but you help to keep wild animals, like raccoons, from getting into food that is not healthy for them.
