Talkin’ Trash
My friend Marc emailed me yesterday to tell me about his garbage. Not so much what was in it, exactly, as the fact he was planning to carry it around for the next two weeks. Marc lives in San Francisco, and as part of his work for a design consultancy there, he and some fellow co-workers are running a novel kind of eco-relay. The goal? For each member of the world-wide team to keep and carry all the waste they produce over 14 days; only then can he or she can pass the Glad bag on.
Marc writes: “So far it’s hit Austin, Seattle, China, New York City, and Herrenberg, Germany. It’s been great because the folks participating are not, in general, ‘green’ types, and each location seems to have its own waste disposal challenges. I think it’s been less intimidating to mainstream types than the usual ‘I drive a prius and drink my own pee’ environmentalist stuff.”
You can follow Marc’s progress on the Trash Talk blog by clicking here.
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August 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
So I finished a few weeks ago, conspicuously short of any ground-breaking, world-changing insights… however, I did learn a lot, cleaned up my own habits, and it prompted several conversations with clients about cleaning up THEIR act that otherwise would have been awkward to start.
Also, there’s nothing wrong with driving a Prius OR drinking your own pee. Just not my bag. I’m more a motorcycle and tap-water fella, but different strokes…