Success!!! We successfully finished the zero waste week challenge and I believe we were able to make a positive impact on the Babson community. The number of people that I ran into that had questions on "that bag on my backpack" were outstanding. Either way, the purpose of the challenge was to raise awareness and we definitely accomplished that. Although the number of people that "legitimately" participated in the event may be different than the number of bags received that was not the purpose. The purpose was to allow our student body to start thinking GREEN. With the help of many enthusiastic volunteers I believe that our presence on campus has definitely increased and this will help us with our next challenge for the spring.
Looking forward I would definitely recommend doing this challenge again. It allowed us to confront the student body with a problem and show that there are people out there that are interested in becoming involved. Recyclopse may not have enjoyed carrying around garbage with him all day but then again it was a great lesson to learn how to waste less. Often times people would say that as long as you recycle everything you can you are being sustainable. On the contrary, the most important thing is limiting the amount you are wasting and not just recycle more. If you are constantly conscious of what you are buying and how you dispose of things it will make you that much better at making the environment safer or more sustainable.
*Recyclopse*
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