Hello, Steemians! We've done four rounds of nature photo contests, one coloring contest, a help the bees contest, and two random acts of kindness contests. Let's try something new, shall we?
image from rool dot nl
The winner of this contest will receive a share of @steembasicincome - upvotes on your posts for life from SBI!
And to continue the tradition, this contest will be judged by my cats. Who better to judge us humans than cats?
no one, that's who
So what's the contest, already?
The objective is to make as little garbage as possible for the next week, and make a post about the steps you took (and put a link in the comments here!). Did you bring cloth bags to the market? Brought jars to the bulk section? Brought a mug to the coffee shop you frequent instead of taking a disposable? Refused a straw or paper napkins or plastic cutlery? Made shopping decisions because of the packaging? Fixed something rather than replace it?
Where everybody is starting from and what they have available to them is going to be different, so that's why we will continue the tradition of cat judging, but you get bonus points* if you make like a zero waste blogger and include a photo of how much rubbish you made during the week! Yes - show us a picture of your trash bag(s) or whatever you collect the trash in!
fancy Pinterest-worthy zero waste blog jar of trash not required - image from zipcar
The idea is for people to reduce their trash from normal, so try and make an extra effort and tell us about how it was different from a normal week.
The contest will end on Wednesday, 4 July, noon MST - so have your posts in by then!
In case you don't follow her, @hickorymack has another round of the #litterwalk contest going right now (which has much bigger prizes than mine, go do it!), which can also be good inspiration for why we need to make less trash!
Ready, Set, Reduce! 🚯
*bonus points: An extra treat goes on the card with your name on it to tempt the kitties to eat your offering first - you win if they eat the treats on your card first. 😸😸
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We have quite good re-cycling facilities here (Leicester was an environment city at one stage, before Richard III was found in a car park - there's littering for you)! We have a roadside recycling bag collection each week, compost bins and water butts are available at a reduced price and there are recycling containers (mainly clothes and bottles) at many shopping centres and parks and several recycling centres. I usually have about a carrier bag of non-recyclable waste a week for a household of three. Not sure I could get it into a mason jar, though (or would want to) 😱.
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I scoop way too much litter to fit mine in a Mason jar, either. 😂 LOL about Richard III. Here we find dinosaur bones!
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Yeh, dinosaur bones, they're another thing littered all over the countryside!
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A great idea! And for Denver, I might add which is the most wasteFULL city I have ever lived in. I have never seen a more uncaring place - just think - buildings with more than 7 units do not get recycling - WTF??? But i practice this every day. Recently bought stash tea - and found that although the bags themselves are organic and recycleable they come in these weird metal-plastic sealed packets - which I ended up making art out of! since I refused to "throw them away"
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Oh I know! And we don't get composting, either, but people with yards who could easily make a bin do? It's backwards here. I made a bin for my balcony to compost in. Before my building finally ponied up to pay for recycling, I was carrying my cloth bag of recyclables to work when I walked there for the night shift and putting it in theirs. 😂😂
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yea I drive mine over to 52nd and Marshall every so often - and give them to the autistic people at sustain-abilty -
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