Back to School Carnival is Green Thanks to Caring for Creation.

The Caring for Creation Committee (C4C) is pleased to report that:

★     Carnival guests dispensed approximately 14 gallons of ice water from church-provided coolers into compostable paper cups, thereby eliminating both the cost of bottled water and the plastic bottle waste

★     The C4C WasteWise project team provided waste bins at strategic locations, from which the following quantities of waste were collected:

○      eight (8) 55-gal bags of compostable paper and food waste

○      one (1) 55-gal bag of recyclable plastic film (food packaging, table covers, etc.)

○      one (1) 65-gal bin of recyclable plastic, metal and cardboard (mostly food containers and a few drink bottles/cans brought by workers and guests)

○      about ¼ bag of miscellaneous trash, including many oily plastic bags of waste popcorn-popping ingredients that went into the SAPC trash dumpster to go to the county landfill.

Margaret Ellingson took all of the compostable/recyclable materials that Dekalb County does not accept to Emory University’s Material Recovery Facility. Consequently, the Carnival had a near-zero environmental impact!