#Cleanupfred

The Earth Day event is beginning to shape up.  I was recently awarded the Feelsgood.ca grant of the month so now I have the resources needed to put on a fun event on Earth Day.  I'm hoping to put together  a day of fun which includes a free BBQ, live music and possibly guest speakers.  Tim Horton's has agreed to sponsor the event by providing rubber gloves, garbage bags, tshirts, coffee and donuts.

I'm doing my best to find other Frederictonians who would like to help clean some "zones" that have been laid out on this google map.  I'm also encouraging people to join the #cleanupfred facebook page.  It would be great to start a social media campaign using the hashtag #cleanupfred.

I would love to see people shooting pictures of coffee cups and fast food garbage they find in the streets leading up to the event.  Photos can be tweeted with the hashtag #cleanupfred and #fredericton tags.  Shots of garbage can also be uploaded to the #cleanupfred facebook page.

Special thanks to Feelsgood.ca , Picaroons, and Tim Horton's for helping put this event on.

Let's get this social media campaign off the ground :)

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Earth Day Cleanup in Fredericton!

SO I've been working on organizing an Earth Day cleanup here in Fredericton April 22nd and so far I have 29 people interested.  The idea is to pickup garbage in zones that I have created on this google map.  Each zone will either be a shopping center parking lot, public park or school zone.  Teams will be made up of at least 3 people and I would encourage each team to sign up to clean 2 or 3 zones.  I'm hoping that each team will also have a photographer to document every piece of trash fast food trash.

It would be great to compare the ratio of coffee cup finds to fast food finds to "other" types of trash that we collect.

I will be adding more information about the event here on this blog as well as on the facebook event page.

Stay tuned!

Vegware Cup Coffee Test - Results

So the results are in.  Vegware makes some great organic and compostable coffee cups, however one style of cup did not pass my test.  It was only a matter of about 4 hours when I noticed the first leak.

Oddly enough, the brown cup in the video has had coffee in it for 2 weeks.  There was absolutely no sign of leakage or breakdown at all!  It's actually quite impressive to see a cup so strong that it keeps stinky coffee in it leak free for 2 weeks!



Perhaps I should test some Tim Horton's and McCafe tests just to be fair.

Any Roll Up The Rim Winners?

So has anyone won any free coffees, donuts or big screen TVs yet?





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Vegware's Coffee Lids Are The World's First Compostable Lid!

I just spoke with a very friendly representative from Vegware who is interested in my project.  I'm hoping that I can convince at least 1 coffee shop to consider using Vegware's compostable coffee cups and lids.

Brace Yourselves, Roll Up The Rim Is Coming

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So as mentioned in my previous post, I found 2 Roll Up The Rim cups yesterday, which is sad because the campaign JUST started that morning.  I'm keeping a separate category for RUTR cup finds over the next few weeks.

February Totals So Far

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It's that time of year again, Canadian Christmas.  Roll Up The Rim is back and the internets are buzzing up a storm!  Canadians LOVE Roll Up The Rim.  And why wouldn't you be excited?  Tim Horton's is giving away 40 Toyota Camry Hybrids, 100 Panasonic 3D Viera Tvs, Coleman Camp Gear, 5000 Panasonic Lumix cameras, and 47,000,000 DONUTS!!!

In fact, the first words I heard anyone speak today was about Roll Up The Rim!  I was waiting for my bus and a guy got out of his truck and yelled "It's Rim Rollin time again!".  At least, I assume he meant Roll Up The Rim.

While I was on the bus on the way to work, I saw my first RUTR cup, but I didn't make the bus stop so I could pick it up.  It was about 8:30 am ... and I'm betting the Tim Horton's opens at 6:00 am.  So within 2 and a half hours of the campaign starting, I saw a discarded RUTR cup.

Here are February's totals thus far:

Tim Horton's 66

McCafe 5

Other 8

Roll Up The Rim 2

Reids 4

Styrofoam 1

Timothy's 1

February total 87

*  36 of those cups were found in parking lots on prospect and they were mostly Tim Horton cups.