Community Action!

Since our cross Canada tour this summer, we've had amazing feedback from folks who saw the film and felt inspired to take individual action! I can't tell you how happy it makes us to recieve these types of emails, and we wanted to share a few stories with you.

1) Sarah Ford, Laurie Westaway, and 4 other staff from the County of Peterborough Environmental Services Division started their own zero waste competition as an office challenge.

"we decided to try our own (less intensive - but still challenging) version of the Clean Bin Project.  Six staff members have undertaken a two month challenge (October and November) at home and work in an effort to be as "zero-waste" as possible."

They measured their waste and even graphed it out on a blog at http://environmentalserviceszerowasteproject.wordpress.com/ Check it out!

2) A group of people from Kimberley, BC started The Clean Bin Project Kimberley. At last report, they were having monthly meetings to encourage each other to reduce their landfill waste. It's this kind of community support that keeps people going over the long haul!

3) Yasmin from Peterborough contacted us the day after she saw the film and said:

We "began our one year trial TODAY. . .I am sure it will be fun with two teenagers and a husband who loves electronics. Even our dog tequila has a bin!!"

I may have convinced her to blog about her experiences, so stay tuned.

Many other individuals have contacted us to share their stories of reducing waste, and we hope to feature these from time to time here on the film website. It's so amazing to see people jumping on board with waste reduction! Keep it up!

Comments

[Jocelynn]

Love this! I didn't realize we should email and let you guys know...after seeing that movie it helped me realize how much more I could be doing! Since the movie I've reduced a lot more of my waste. One of the main things I wasn't doing, and now do, was take-out containers. Also, this Christmas was wrap-free and I got my family involved too! :) ! I also decided to blog about it but it's still pretty new so not too much on it yet :) http://environminds.blogspot.com/

It makes me REALLY happy to know others felt inspired too. You guys are awesome!