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What’s the Race to Zero Waste?
This is a game that everybody in the house play. This has been done on college campuses, and even as a publicity exercise on a national morning show. It is a very effective and fun way to tune into the issue of the resources we waste, especially in the form of packaging! This has even been done by companies - in Japan for example, 2800 companies vowed to get to Zero Waste within a year, and they all succeeded.
Here’s how it works:
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Set-up: Put a box or a bag in your car, handbag, whatver you carry with you.
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Anything that’s not eligible for composting or recycling goes in the box or bag.
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For one week: Keep a log. What was hard? What was easy?
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Then, on Day 7: What did you have in the box at the end of the week? What else could you have bought in lieu of those products? If nothing, what could be done to communicate with manufacturers and producers to let them know that their products could be improved for environmental harmony?
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Want an extra “Prep” challenge? For one week before you try the Race, don’t consciously try to change anything, just save your garbage, and measure it or weigh it: how many bags? What’s in them? Use that as a comparison point for the Race week!
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When you’re finished, send in a blog entry, email, videos, photos - and let us know how it went!
Helpful hints
- Set up a simple Compost if you don’t have one
- Download our wallet guide on what’s recyclable
- If you don’t have a municipal recycling program: Pretend you do, just for this week - glass, plastic 1 & 2, paper, aluminum all go in there - maybe 4 & 5- but NOT plastic 3, 6 or 7- those are misleading labels. This may also show you what your community could be doing.
- Get some tips at Gogreenonline.com/zerowaste/habit changes
- Do some family education, gather round the monitor and watch some Waste programming - maybe one at a time : )
- No Cheating - how to handle the potential risk points, like eating out
- Get our twitter notifications or sign up for GoGreen room by room emails
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