Post by Mike S on Dec 2, 2008 12:17:19 GMT -8
I'm not sure if anyone else from SRV is going to the USGP of Cyclocross this weekend in Portland, but it's interesting to see what they're doing to cut down on waste:
Hi all team managers
My name is robert christensen and as most of you know i will be spear heading the recycling effort with 1-800 GOT JUNK at the USGP. Like last year i will be attempting to lake this event as much of a "zero waste " event as possible. This year we have a small challenge. To make this a zero waste without all of the biodegradable glass, plates, bowls,and flat ware. That is reason i'm contacting most of the teams and talking up the idea of bringing your own.
Last year over 5000 people for the two day event and we were able to recycle 1210lbs of cardboard, glass, metal, and paper. we sent 340 lbs of biodegradable food waste and 280 lbs for non-recoverable waste to the landfills.
the problem this year is the company that brought the corn based
cook-ware will not be a sponsor, which in turn will more than DOUBLE the amount of non-recoverable waste. The
kind of waste we dont want in the land fills.
what you can do
1. BRING YOUR OWN. going to eat bring a plate, and everybody is going to drink so bring your favorite pimp cauldron
2. dont throw it away if its not on the can. PLEASE last year we spent a couple of hours getting food waste out of the recycling bins. nasty! (help a brother out)
3. make sure that all food waste is out of "whatever" you are throwing away. an empty wrapper weighs nothing but leave half of your energy bar in and you just increased your waste by at least a 1000%.
4. bring anything not on the cans to my truck. this includes
Styrofoam, Wood, empty chain lube bottles..........
5. send out this e-mail to anyone who plans on attending
6. spread the word
what i will do
more and easier to understand recycling stations. we will be using
Portlands Green Can system so we will only need 3 cans per station. 1."green can" 2. food waste only 3. contaminated by food waste/ not recoverable
Number 3 is the one we want at about 100lbs for the weekend but it will be hard. this includes anything that has touched food, from plastic cookware, food packaging, and PLASTIC BAGS. (please take your plastic bags home they are not recyclable keep them out of the green cans. this includes being full of empty beer cans, the bag is still not "green" dump out cans keep plastic bag or place in number 3 can)
thanx for your time
robert
aka. graz
Hi all team managers
My name is robert christensen and as most of you know i will be spear heading the recycling effort with 1-800 GOT JUNK at the USGP. Like last year i will be attempting to lake this event as much of a "zero waste " event as possible. This year we have a small challenge. To make this a zero waste without all of the biodegradable glass, plates, bowls,and flat ware. That is reason i'm contacting most of the teams and talking up the idea of bringing your own.
Last year over 5000 people for the two day event and we were able to recycle 1210lbs of cardboard, glass, metal, and paper. we sent 340 lbs of biodegradable food waste and 280 lbs for non-recoverable waste to the landfills.
the problem this year is the company that brought the corn based
cook-ware will not be a sponsor, which in turn will more than DOUBLE the amount of non-recoverable waste. The
kind of waste we dont want in the land fills.
what you can do
1. BRING YOUR OWN. going to eat bring a plate, and everybody is going to drink so bring your favorite pimp cauldron
2. dont throw it away if its not on the can. PLEASE last year we spent a couple of hours getting food waste out of the recycling bins. nasty! (help a brother out)
3. make sure that all food waste is out of "whatever" you are throwing away. an empty wrapper weighs nothing but leave half of your energy bar in and you just increased your waste by at least a 1000%.
4. bring anything not on the cans to my truck. this includes
Styrofoam, Wood, empty chain lube bottles..........
5. send out this e-mail to anyone who plans on attending
6. spread the word
what i will do
more and easier to understand recycling stations. we will be using
Portlands Green Can system so we will only need 3 cans per station. 1."green can" 2. food waste only 3. contaminated by food waste/ not recoverable
Number 3 is the one we want at about 100lbs for the weekend but it will be hard. this includes anything that has touched food, from plastic cookware, food packaging, and PLASTIC BAGS. (please take your plastic bags home they are not recyclable keep them out of the green cans. this includes being full of empty beer cans, the bag is still not "green" dump out cans keep plastic bag or place in number 3 can)
thanx for your time
robert
aka. graz