Zero Waste is slowly become more ubiquitous at major events. Check out the agenda for a major Open House meeting and look forward to properly disposing of your waste this year!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Recyclemania Cornhole in the UU
The zero waste club helped the good consumerists of Cal Poly sort their waste during UU hour today. The cornhole game will be setup for the next week to help make recycling fun!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Zero Waste Workday
The Zero Waste Club met up at Rory's house to make our Cal Poly model of trash, sandwich boards, a corn hole style game for recycling, and compile a compostable products list for open house clubs and organizations.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Open House 2013: A Zero Waste Event!
The zero waste club is working closely with open house this year to make open house a zero waste event!
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Recyclemania Kickoff with Mr. Eco!
Join us tomorrow during UU hour for the Recyclemania Kickoff event! Mr. Eco will be performing and also debuting his newest song "Recycle Robot"
Friday, January 18, 2013
Zero Waste Club Partnership with Club ReThink
Club ReThink is helping design recycling posters and placards to be posted around campus and displayed on campus computer screens! Look out for them soon!
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Empower Poly Coalition Reunites!
The zero waste club felt funky fresh today walking a labyrinth and reuniting with the good people of the empower poly coalition. We participated in a lovely exercise called work that reconnects with Linda Seeley from mothers for peace and also learned of the great work EPC has done in the past. We're excited to make big changes this year!
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Recyclemania Display on Dexter
The Zero waste club's big project this year is bringing Recyclemania to Cal Poly. Recyclemania is a national competition for promoting recycling on college campuses and to minimize waste. This weekend, the Club got together and started painting and building a display that will be on Dexter lawn this coming week. Here are some pictures from the build process!
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Zero Waste Club T Shirts!
FINALLY! We made them. If you are a ZW alumni contact us to get one!!
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| Kylie hand painted Rory's design on the screen for us. |
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| Jeremy Black getting just the right blend of... WHITE? |
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| Halloween colors! |
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| Lookin' goooood! |
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Cold Canyon Tour
The Zero Waste Club took a tour of the Cold Canyon Landfill and Recycling Center! We got to drive up to the site where they are currently burying trash, meet the falconer who keeps the birds from eating stuff, and go inside the recycling center where they hand sort everything you put in your blue bin.
It was a beautiful day and I was personally surprised at how nice the landfill was. I didn't notice too much of a smell, and the whole trash mountain that we drove on had been planted with grass and actually looked decent.
Random facts from the tour:
Here are some pictures from the day:
It was a beautiful day and I was personally surprised at how nice the landfill was. I didn't notice too much of a smell, and the whole trash mountain that we drove on had been planted with grass and actually looked decent.
Random facts from the tour:
- 300 to 500 tons are buried every day at the landfill.
- By compacting the trash with a heavy tractor driving back and forth over it, they are able to fit 8 times as much stuff in the same volume.
- 18 people hand sort all of the recycling in the recycling center.
- The recyclables are then shipped away to other locations to be reprocessed.
- Buying goods "made from recycled material" increases the market price for recyclables, making recycling more economically attractive for waste management institutions everywhere.
Here are some pictures from the day:
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Build a Composting Toilet
From Rory Aronson's blog:
Today I built a composting toilet and a urinal at the Upham house. The toilet consists of a 5 gallon bucket with a toilet seat on top, and a bucket of sawdust from the hardware store's shop vac to cover your work when you are done. Once the bucket gets filled up, it will be buried in a hole in the backyard to be further composted and eventually supply our tree in the back with nutrients. The urinal is a large funnel connected to a tube. The tube goes through the floor, out the wall, and into the grass outside.
Every time this system is used, we will prevent the use of 1.6 gallons of water and also alleviate the need to clean that water in the waste water treatment plant.
(4 flushes per day)*(1.6 gallons per flush)*(365 days) = 2,336 gallons saved per yearEvery time this system is used, we will prevent the use of 1.6 gallons of water and also alleviate the need to clean that water in the waste water treatment plant.
SLO County to Ban Disposable Bags
Bill Worrell, head of the Integrated Waste Management Authority (IWMA) proposed banning single use plastic and paper bags at supermarkets in order to promote the use of reusable bags. City Council voted unanimously on September 6, 2011, to pass the ordinance. Vote now goes to the IWMA board on the 14th. The ordinance will eliminate disposable bags from all county supermarkets July 1, 2012, and from smaller stores by Jan. 1, 2013. Let's hope it gets passed!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Bringing Composting to the Upper Class
Kylie, Rory, and Jeremy built a rotating composter with some of the club funds this last weekend. They used bike wheels to make the barrel, and bike forks to allow the whole thing to rotate. On the ends, old bike tubes were used to seal up the holes between the spokes. They added latches to keep the door shut and a handle that Rory found in a dumpster to kick up the fancy score =] They then carried it across the train station bridge and set it up in Kylie's backyard. His name is George.
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