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Ann Arbor Trash Talk Tour to showcase ways to reduce throwaway culture

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September 7, 2021
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ANN ARBOR, MI — An environmentally aware group referred to as the Washtenaw Zero Waste Coalition is hoping to scale back throwaway tradition within the Ann Arbor space.

To teach folks about methods to shift towards a zero-waste life-style and cut back contributions to landfills, the group is organizing a self-guided Trash Talk Tour on Sunday, Sept. 19.

It’s billed as a free, family-friendly, instructional occasion, happening rain or shine, with a number of stops all through the Ann Arbor space and a pre-tour occasion at Michigan Stadium.

Those that cease by the Large Home for a 20-minute tour at 9:30 a.m. will get to see the volunteer-led waste sorting that happens the morning after UM soccer video games and ask questions.

“The College of Michigan Athletic Division is striving towards zero waste at Michigan Stadium with an aspirational aim of diverting a minimum of 90 p.c of waste from the landfill by recycling and composting,” the occasion web site states.

The four-hour fundamental tour lasting from midday to 4 p.m. consists of stops at Allen Elementary College, Recycle Ann Arbor’s Drop-Off Station, Ann Arbor’s previous landfill, town compost facility, Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Store, bulk meals retailer By the Pound, bring-your-own-container retailer BYOC Co., Folks’s Meals Co-Op, Zingerman’s Deli and Widespread Cycle.

Extra info, together with a tour map and descriptions of all stops, is offered at www.trashtalktour.org.

Those that go on the tour, whether or not of their automobile or on their bicycle, will find out about modern methods native companies and governmental entities are lowering waste, mentioned Dan Ezekiel of the Washtenaw Zero Waste Coalition.

“Consider the Outdated West Aspect houses tour, besides that most individuals might be of their automobiles,” Ezekiel mentioned, explaining the way it works. “There’s a route and you may be a part of the route wherever you need and you may go to nonetheless many stops you need. We hope all people’s not going to observe the route the identical method on the identical time, as a result of then locations might be overwhelmed.”

On the previous landfill cease off Platt and Ellsworth roads, Missy Stults, town’s sustainability supervisor and chief of town’s A2Zero carbon-neutrality initiative, is anticipated to speak concerning the metropolis’s plans for a big photo voltaic farm on property there.

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On the close by Drop-Off Station, Recycle Ann Arbor will present excursions and focus on recycling drop-off opportunities, whereas showcasing a brand new state-of-the-art recycling truck and plans for a new Ann Arbor recycling plant. Attendees are requested to not put on open-toe sneakers or flip flops.

Allen Elementary will showcase the way it includes college students in stewardship and its plans for the long run, whereas Zingerman’s Deli will discuss working with town and different eating places on a reusable takeout container program.

Folks’s Meals Co-Op will clarify a few of the environmentally pleasant and zero-waste merchandise it provides to clients, in addition to its recycling requirements, whereas Widespread Cycle, an Ann Arbor bicycle co-op, will host a motorbike restore drop-in session, permitting folks to get assist with bicycles or simply tour the workspace.

BYOC Co. is a refill station and zero-waste store that goals to scale back single-use plastic consumption and permits folks to usher in their very own containers from residence to refill with family cleansing and private care merchandise. Tour individuals can obtain 10% off purchases.

The Zero Waste Coalition, which is partnering with the Ecology Middle and the Washtenaw County Water Sources Commissioner’s Workplace, foresees the Trash Discuss Tour as an annual occasion, Ezekiel mentioned.

The preliminary pondering was to do a bus tour just like town’s annual greenbelt tour, however with the COVID-19 pandemic it has morphed right into a self-guided tour, he mentioned.

“We canceled the bus for COVID causes, however then the extra we began desirous about it, the extra freedom we realized we’d have if we didn’t use the bus,” he mentioned. “It type of turned obvious that Plan B was really higher than Plan A.”

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