The Great Green Resolution

During the month of January, EARTHDAY.ORG hosts a competition with their employees to see who can use the least amount of single-use plastic throughout the month. The amount of single-use plastic is seen below and will be tracked throughout the month.

Rules of the Competition

The competition counts the amount of single-use plastic someone uses and disposes of. At the end of each day, the number of single-use plastic is counted and added to their daily totals.

A single piece is defined as:

Single-use plastic material is then disposed of after use.
A container is equal to one piece despite the possibility of it having multiple removable pieces. Meaning, a water bottle counts as one piece even though it technically has 3 including bottle, cap, and wrapper.
If it is plastic and meant to be disposed of after use it counts as a piece.

A competitor can take a piece and repurpose it to have multiple uses. If so, they don’t have to count that piece to their daily total. That being said, Recycling DOES NOT cancel a single-use plastic.

The competition begins on January 1st once the participant has awoken from the shenanigans the night before.

The competition ends at Midnight on February 1st local time.

Follow us on our journey to become plastic free