No Trash Week - Earth Day Week 2010
This great green event is over now!
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Sun April 18 2010
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Sat April 24 2010
Sunday, April 18, 12 am - Saturday, April 24, 12 pm |
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http://notrashweek.com/ |
No Trash Week is Earth Day Week, April 18th-24th! Celebrate by trying to not make any for an entire week!
Get some friends together, advertise to your email address book, announce it on your blog, post flyers (previously used paper, of course) at your work and school! Tell everyone it's happening, then participate!
How do you participate? Strive to make no trash for an entire week. Try your best, but don't worry too much about getting a perfect score, especially if this is your first attempt to go garbage-free.
Think about what you eat, how you commute, how you move things from place to place, how you share information and take notes... Remember that although recycling is a wonderful way to extend the useful life of many materials, it still takes energy to remake things, and most end up downcycled until they wind up in the landfill. So treat recycling as a last resort, for materials you just can't find any way to reuse. For this challenge, biodegradable items which you turn back into dirt via a compost in your own yard or home do not count as trash. However, a plastic grocery bag kept only for reuse as a rubbish bin liner still counts as trash!
Some popular things to try during No Trash Week include:
* Designating a convenient location to store reusable bags so they get remembered on grocery trips
* Creating a drying rack to make washing of produce bags and ziplocks easy
* Building meals from food that can be bought in bulk rather than in any packaging
* Practicing remembering to bring tupperware to restaurants for leftovers
* Making hankies and rags out of old clothes too ratty to wear or give away
* Bringing a hand towel to work to avoid paper towel use for hand-washing
* Getting around to setting up a backyard compost or indoor worm bin
* Getting around to calling unsolicited mailers to have mailings canceled
* Fixing up your bike
For more details and ideas see website, linked above, or contact:
info@notrashweek.com
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Larry says:
Please share your story as you go through No Trash Week! It's a great way for us to give each other ideas, and a way to inspire future No Trash Week participants. Share at: http://notrashweek.com/April-2010-comments.php
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