Plastic Challenge

BAS: Protect It! Plastic Challenge: How much do YOU use?
“I ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE!”
Find out just how much “single use disposable” plastic waste you use. Instead of not using plastic, or throwing it “away,” for this challenge you will keep and collect all of your plastic waste for one week. Your Instagram pictures will function as drawing tickets for a chance to win a fabulous:
BAS logo swag steel “Yeti-style” double walled giant mug, or lesser-awesome small BAS steel/plastic coffee mug, or BAS t-shirt!
https://www.instagram.com/basprotectit/
This is how it works:
A week of plastic around the world:
https://www.businessinsider.com/plastic-waste-pollution-2018-6#we-recycle-plastic-paper-glass-et-cetera-and-try-to-buy-products-made-from-recycled-materials-she-said-we-try-to-have-as-many-plants-as-possible-on-our-balcony-8
Recommended viewing:
http://www.bagitmovie.com/about_issues.html Factual & funny, w/significant info about how the chemicals from plastic water affect our bodies. Website has many resources too.
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tapped/ Read your water label & what it doesn’t tell you.
https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/ short movie available free here.
Plastic info:
https://www.banthebottle.net/bottled-water-facts/
https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html
http://pacinst.org/publication/bottled-water-and-energy-a-fact-sheet/
https://www.5gyres.org/
https://healthebay.org/
“I ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE!”
Find out just how much “single use disposable” plastic waste you use. Instead of not using plastic, or throwing it “away,” for this challenge you will keep and collect all of your plastic waste for one week. Your Instagram pictures will function as drawing tickets for a chance to win a fabulous:
BAS logo swag steel “Yeti-style” double walled giant mug, or lesser-awesome small BAS steel/plastic coffee mug, or BAS t-shirt!
https://www.instagram.com/basprotectit/
This is how it works:
- At the Bayside Adventure Sports ministry fair, anyone may enter the drawing at our booth with a paper ticket (name, email, instagram handle if available).
- At our booth, take a photo w/ the “I accept the challenge!” poster and Instagram to: #basprotectit = another entry in drawing.
- Keep & collect/save 1 week of ALL of your own “trash” plastic - all of it, especially the “little bits.” (truly unsanitary items that can’t be rinsed or wiped clean may be disposed ie. diapers)
- After 1 week or by the following Monday midnight, photograph & Instagram your entire plastic pile/collection to:
#basprotectit = another entry in drawing.
- An additional entry may be Instagram photo of the participant showing proper recycle- disposal. Where to recycle: https://earth911.com/ of any actual “recyclables” to: #basprotectit = another entry in drawing.
- An additional entry may be made by Instagramming a photo of artwork created from the waste to: #basprotectit = another entry in drawing.
- Want to learn more & get more chances to win? Do the Plastic Challenge phase 2: A second week of plastic awareness in the traditional Plastic Challenge way, by reusing, replacing, and refusing “single use” plastic - for example, carry a reusable water bottle and take silverware or bamboo instead. Try reusing a straw over and over. Take a coffee cup to your favorite cafe. Pack lunch in a mason jar. Helpful links and hints are available below. Adding a creative Instagram pic to: #basprotectit = another entry in drawing.
- Instagram photos showing ways that you successfully avoided adding to plastic waste landfill. ex. photo with steel water bottle, packet of reusable utensils, mason jars w/ lunch food, etc. Up to FIVE entries may be made, by the following Monday midnight. #basprotectit = another entry in drawing.
- Administrator of this Plastic Challenge (Kerri M, BAS ProtectIt Team) will review the entries on Instagram (& original tix) and will randomly select by “drawing” the winners. The more you enter per above, the more chance you have to win (in addition to the pure joy of becoming a better steward of God’s awesome planet)! Winners will be messaged via Instagram from BAS or notified via email from the paper ticket entry.
A week of plastic around the world:
https://www.businessinsider.com/plastic-waste-pollution-2018-6#we-recycle-plastic-paper-glass-et-cetera-and-try-to-buy-products-made-from-recycled-materials-she-said-we-try-to-have-as-many-plants-as-possible-on-our-balcony-8
Recommended viewing:
http://www.bagitmovie.com/about_issues.html Factual & funny, w/significant info about how the chemicals from plastic water affect our bodies. Website has many resources too.
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tapped/ Read your water label & what it doesn’t tell you.
https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/ short movie available free here.
Plastic info:
https://www.banthebottle.net/bottled-water-facts/
https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html
http://pacinst.org/publication/bottled-water-and-energy-a-fact-sheet/
https://www.5gyres.org/
https://healthebay.org/
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