The Film “Clean Bin Project”
I took my 8 year old daughter with me to go see the Vancouver premier for The Clean Bin Project. This is the 2nd time I have seen the film in less than 3 days, and I am happy to report I enjoyed it as much the 2nd time as the first.
Grant and Jen who are in the documentary (Grant is the producer) bring a wonderful amount of energy and enthusiasm to their commitment to zero waste for one year. The project set out on a very simple quest: 1. to produce no (or virtually) no garbage for one year and 2. other then food, buy nothing for one year and 3 (more importantly) Grant and Jen were competing with each other to see who could create the least amount of waste. I won’t give it away who won, but I can tell you it is amazing and admirable how little garbage they created or needed to create when they put their minds to it.
It certainly would take a considerable effort to get my family to no waste. With four kids under 8, the consumption habits are prohibitive and to reason with a child that no new toys should be acquired would be tough, for sure. My 8 year old was asked what she thought about the movie? Her response was very sweet and painfully honest “I enjoyed it a lot, but thankfully mummy is not making us live zero waste!” She got it, zero waste means no stuff, for her.
One of the painfully realistic things about zero waste, you do have to consume less in order to try and achieve “it”. A tough change for our society. One that I am trying to make.
I am not sure if I can achieve zero waste right now, but I am going to try and get it to 90% at home and at work. Stand by for results!
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