| Contest |
• Had Institutional, Commercial and Industrial sector demonstrated the ways in which they have reduced their waste. The best business won an award of merit
• Raffle draw for all employees with prizes including a home composter, a picture frame and hall mirror made out of recycled material |
| Communications |
• Staff-wide email sent out announcing WRW |
| Green Exchange |
• Held office supply exchanges
• Created a buy and sell bulletin board |
| Hazardous Waste |
• Demonstration of natural cleaners at lunch hour and distribution of samples to employees |
| Textiles Collection |
• Salvation Army and The Ontario March of Dimes held a Household Item Collection during the week. Residents were encouraged to fill a bag with items such as clothes, kitchenware, and other small reusable household items. |
| Working with Local Business |
• Local business encouraged customers to use reusable shopping bags or containers…participating customers could win prizes
Posters were displayed at doughnut and coffee shops to encourage the “lug-a-mug” campaign. The posters were reusable for the following year. |
| Other Suggestions |
• Reincarnate Vehicle Recycling displays in auto shops
• Implement a battery take-back and recycling program
• As a challenge get employees in the workplace to write down all the things they think can be recycled. The person with the longest list of correct answers wins. Wrong answers count against the game participant
• Ask employees to sort their garbage into numerous categories: magazine paper, newsprint, "confidential" paper, cardboard, glass bottles, PET bottles, cans, combustible, batteries, non-combustibles, and so on.
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