Reducing Your Material Footprint - Open Session

To kick off Zero Waste Week, join the Sustainability Office to learn about reducing your material footprint! 

This session will challenge you to think differently about how buy items at home and at work, and will provide interactive waste reduction training and resources, including composting and recycling.We'll finish off the session with the Waste Sorting Challenge, where you'll have 30 seconds to sort common waste items and be entered to win prizes.

You'll also be able to pick up a free mason jar to take the Zero Waste Challenge!

Outline:

• The circular economy

• Local and provincial changes

• Waterloo's direction

• Recycling and composting

• Moving beyond recycling

• Waste sorting challenge

For more information and to register, please visit our registration page. 

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Please note that this session is being specially offered for Waste Reduction Week and is part of our Sustainability Certificate, a seven module course for University employees. If you are an employee and would like to attend the other sessions in the series, please visit the Sustainability Certificate webpage for more information. (You will be awarded credit for SUS105 - Reducing Your Material Footprint.)