Zero Waste Week
The hope is that raising awareness during Zero Waste Week will draw attention to climate change, helping to create new environmentally conscious habits that will overflow into the other 51 weeks of the year! History of Zero Waste Week For more than 15 years, folks have been celebrating Zero Waste Week as...
Position your brand as a zero-waste solution provider by showcasing reusable, sustainable alternatives and encouraging customers to reduce their environmental footprint during this globally-recognized awareness week.
- Share 5 easy swaps: reusable bags, refillable bottles, composting tips—show how your products enable zero-waste living
- Partner with eco-conscious influencers to challenge followers to a 'Zero Waste Week pledge' and share their waste-reduction wins
- Highlight your sustainable packaging or take-back program; position clothing/textile recycling as a fashion-forward choice
- Create a 'waste audit' content series showing before/after transformations of homes/offices using your eco-friendly products
For more than 15 years, folks have been celebrating Zero Waste Week as a time to turn their attention to the ways humans can live in the world with a smaller ecological footprint.
This event was an idea of Rachelle Strauss, who wanted to start a national campaign to lower the amount of waste that each person creates after experiencing the Bocastle flood of 2004.
This flood was a wake-up call for Strauss, who began fighting against manmade climate change that could be a contributing factor to such disasters.
Zero Waste Week was born in 2008, and since its inaugural celebration, it has been adopted by various organizations, municipal structures, non-profits, and other groups worldwide.
In fact, by the time this event celebrated its first decade, people from at least seventy-three countries were participating in Zero Waste Week.
Reduce Waste
While the goal is to live with zero waste, the event organizers recognize that even small steps to reduce waste are a great achievement. During Zero Waste Week, look for different ways to begin reducing the amount of waste in the family, home, and office. Check out some of these ideas to minimize the amount of waste: Minimize food waste. Collect vegetable scraps to make broth, freeze leftovers for another day, start composting Carry reusable bags. Whether at the grocery store, drugstore, or farmers’ market, always keep reusable bags in a purse, car, or pocket Use a refillable water bottle. Forget those single-use plastic bottles – save the earth (and money!) by using refillable water bottles
Invite Others to Join Zero Waste Week
Getting a friend or family member to join in on Zero Waste Week can double the impact it has! Make a personal invitation to someone and then buddy up in the journey toward zero waste by sharing resources, trading secrets, or setting up a neighborhood system where people can trade the items they need instead of throwing them away.
Stop Clothing Waste in Landfills
It can take more than 200 years for clothing in landfills to decompose! Plus, it can cause greenhouse gases as well as toxic chemicals that leach into the soil or groundwater. Clothing waste can be limited in a number of ways – some companies are even using old clothes to make bricks that can be used to build furniture. Celebrate Zero Waste Week by considering some ideas for preventing clothing waste: Buy used clothing at thrift storesRepair tears and holesRe-purpose old t-shirts as cleaning ragsMake patchwork quilts out of old clothing