In keeping with our culture of sustainability, most weeks we try to institute a “sustainability initiative”. In a nutshell, we start doing something that contributes to sustainability within our office or in our community.
In the past we’ve introduced a “no takeaway cups” (as mentioned previously), installed a cigarette butt tray just outside the main door to our building (a favourite “smoker’s step”), and reducing our use of the lift (using the stairs instead).
This week we’re taking another step towards reducing waste – if any eskimo brings waste (e.g. take away containers, paper bags, etc.) into the igloo, it has to take a ride home with us. As we have a worm farm and Bakashi bin for food waste, this means that we should have very little non-organic waste at the end of the week.
It will be an interesting experiment for us – making visible our personal contribution to waste. I’ll post again next week to reflect on what we learn…
