One Less Thing to Throw Away

If you’ve kept up with my #hamstercarejourney, you’ll know that I had two dwarf hamsters (Laverne & Shirley) with dental issues.

While Laverne seems to have teeth (Shirley lost her top, front teeth), they don’t seem to be fully functional. She can’t open seed casings or bite off a chunk of Mazuri lab block.

I kept Laverne & Shirley fed with a combination of ground up hamster food (like ground up Mazuri lab blocks & ground up almonds, walnuts, flax seeds, etc) and baby foods. One of my fav baby food brands (or, should I say, THEIR fav baby foods) is Serenity Kids.

After months of giving my hams baby food (at this point… 7-8 months??) I just discovered that Serenity Kids has a recycling program for their food pouches! How cool is that! You just collect the pouches and then get a free shipping label from TerraCycle to send them to be recycled.

It’s a bummer I didn’t realize this until now. But… now I know!

Serenity Kids: https://myserenitykids.com/collections/baby-food-pouches

TerraCycle Serenity Kids Program: https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/serenity-kids