Can you do a 150 hour Zero Waste Challenge for Canada’s 150 Birthday?
Can you do a 150 hour Zero Waste Challenge for Canada’s 150 Birthday?
In other words for 150 hours can you not use a trash can at all. Plan your groceries without any trash to throw away – recycle or compost everything not eaten. Plan your shopping for minimisation. Try to purchase those items which have been re-cycled or re-purposed. Ensure any and all packaging can be re-cycled. What else can you do for your lifestyle? What revelations will you become aware of as you endeavour to become “Waste Free”?
“Anticipate Success. Let us heal the naked scars in the earth and restore her green mantle. Let us set our Earth family in order.”~Richard St. Barbe Baker
If you succeed with your trash can lid taped shut for 150 hours, maybe you can try 150 days!!! Draw your attention to 150 hours, what are your consumer habits that support waste, and which demand choices tdo you make which are “Waste Free”?
150 hours: Monday at 6:00 a.m. to Sunday at 12:00 noon.
If you want to try 150 days “Waste Free” then today is June 10, 2017 so that means that 150 days from today would be November 7, 2017. 150 Days From Now
So there it is for the 150th Anniversary of Canada, take the “Waste Free” challenge.
Bea Johnson suggests these steps to be successful:
1. Refuse
2. Reduce
3. Reuse
4. Recycle
5. Rot
What does Johnson know about Zero Waste? Johnson’s family of four lived an entire year, and their waste for the entire month fit into a one quart canning jar.
What will be your reward for completing the challenge?
You will conserve Canada’s resources, and minimize pollution.
Zero Waste builds community with surplus consumer goods donated to food banks, second hand clothing stores, shelters. Composting at community gardens build social networking and support
Zero Waste creates new jobs, as products are repaired, recycled and re-furbished.
Zero Waste saves money as consumers demand less packaging, and more serviceable, and durable products. Consumer demand for products when can be recycled creates a circular economy.
Zero Waste creates a healthier lifestyle and economy. Eating organic, eating locally so food does not have to be transported, eating without waste, modifies the diet to healthy choices.
Zero Waste protects the environment, preserving resources and biospheres for future generations.
“The world’s problem, is not a population explosion, but animal explosion. We’ve got to decide whether we are going to feed animals or humans. To feed animals is a roundabout way of getting food. It takes 18 times more land to feed people on beef than on vegetables, nuts fruits and grains.” Richard St. Barbe Baker.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gunther, Marc How Zero Waste Economy Benefits Everyone Green Biz
Iglesias, Lucia Zero Waste Abundant Rewards Sierra.
Kunst, Amy Zero Waste Living Why You Should Try Zero-Waste Living With no solution in sight to America’s overflowing landfills, there is no better time than now to try zero-waste living. Utne
Zero Waste Benefits Toronto environment
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Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
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Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SW 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
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NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063
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“I believed that God has lent us the Earth. It belongs as much to those who come after us as to us, and it ill behooves us by anything we do or neglect, to deprive them of benefits which are in our power to bequeath.” Richard St. Barbe Baker
Stand firm. Grip hard.
Thrust upward to the skies.
Bend to the winds of heaven.
And learn tranquility.
~Richard St. Barbe Baker
“We feel that our greatest victory remains to be won when man will realize his oneness with the trees, the creatures and with all living things, not ours to destroy, but to be handed on for the enjoyment of future generations.” – Richard St. Barbe Baker.
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