13 Apr
Hello everyone,
Now that the initial zero-waste project is over, we will be giving this blog a makeover over the next week or so to include details on all sorts of other interesting Environmental Services happenings. Please excuse the mess while we give things a tune up, and please check back soon!
Sarah
25 Jan
Hello!
Thanks for stopping by the Zero-Waste Project blog. You may have followed the link from The County of Peterborough’s main site, or you may have come across us simply in your internet travels. Regardless, please feel free to have a look at the project outline, our profiles, and blog posts.
The project is now in fact over, but certainly not forgotten by the participants and those that tuned in along the way.
If you are interested in starting your own project and would like more information/hints/words of inspiration, please feel free to email Sarah at esinfo@county.peterborough.on.ca
Happy Zero-Wasting!
24 Jan
Check out our mention on the Clean Bin Project blog – look under Community Action! December 14,2010:
If you haven’t read about these people before, they undertook a year-long waste challenge and made a movie about their experiences. It was the movie that got us inspired to try something similar.
2 Dec
It is official, Sarah Ford won! Well done Sarah.
She survived on Cheese Whiz – which I couldn’t do – that’s how determined she was at reducing her packaging. Who could compete with that? It should be noted (as I am very competitive) that if I didn’t have toe surgery that Sarah and I would have been 0.02kg apart in the final weigh in.
All staff should be commended on their excellent efforts – we barely filled two bags of garbage in two months. The average Peterborough resident produces an estimated 1.7kg per day – so …. for all of us to produce less than that each in two months – pretty outstanding! Recycling renegades indeed!
Needless to say – although we were an extreme case – the average person could do more – and we encourage everybody – especially during the next month (i.e. holidays approaching) to rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle.
