{"id":10949,"key":"MIT_Zero-Waste_Party","title":"MIT Zero-Waste Party","latest":{"id":1270687,"timestamp":"2026-09-14T14:07:37Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:zerowaste logo.jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Students for Global Sustainability navigation}}\n\nAnnouncing MIT's First Annual\n\n'''Make a mark in the world; don't leave your mark on it!!'''\n\nFREE FOOD: Organic and local sources. FREE: Pollution-FREE, Landfill-Burden-FREE, Emissions-FREE, Cost-FREE!!!\n\nCome check out the Zero Waste Party!!\n\nLots of sustainable door PRIZES and GAMES\n\nEnjoy a party with your friends without burdening the environment!!\n\nVenue: '''TSMC\t Lobby,''' Stata Center (near the Question Mark)\n\nDate: '''April 21st, 2006'''\n\nTime: '''5:00 pm to 8:00 pm'''\n\nCost: FREE\n\nPlease:\t'''Bring your own cup.''' ''Disposable cups will not be served.''\n\n[[File:zerowaste graphics.jpg]]\n\n''Some interesting Facts:''\n\n* Each individual generates about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year - about 5 pounds per person, per day. If we continue this pattern, we'll each create 90,000 pounds of trash in our lifetime (Resource Conservation Challenge, EPA, 2002)\n* 55.4% of municipal solid waste is landfilled in 2003 (EPA)\n* Landfills rank #2 in highest greenhouse gas emissions in the US (after fossil fuel combustion) (White House Taskforce on Recycling, 1998)\n* 1,830,000 tons of disposable plates and cups were used in the US in 1997 (up from 270,000 tons in 1960) (EPA, 1998)\n* 58% of municipal waste (by weight) are packaging and containers, or disposable products such as paper and plastic cups and plates, junk mail, trash bags, and tissue papers and towels. (EPA, 2003)\n\n'''WE THINK WE CAN DO BETTER -- ONE PARTY AT A TIME!!'''\n\nPlanning an event on campus? Check out the [[MIT ZeroWasteEvent PlanningGuide Wiki|MIT \"Zero Waste\" Event Planning Guide]]\n\n''Organized jointly by'' '''SfGS''' ''and the'' '''Technology and Policy Student Society (TPSS)'''\n\n[[Students for Global Sustainability Wiki|SfGS Homepage]]\n\n[http://web.mit.edu/tpss/ TPSS Homepage]\n\nFor questions or more information, email Christi: electris AT mit\n\n''Sponsored through a Graduate Student Life Grant''\n\n[[File:GSLGwebLogo.jpg]]\n\n[[File:mit-blackred-header2.gif]]\n\n[http://www.mit.edu MIT Homepage]\n\n[[File:MIT ZWP Wind Poster.jpg]]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = zero waste, sustainability demonstration events\n| organizations = Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n| sdg = SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities\n| description = The MIT Zero-Waste Party shows that fun and green can go together—Appropedia shares how.\n| location = Massachusetts, United States\n| coordinates = 42° 22' 43.96\" N, 72° 1' 56.52\" W\n}}\n\n[[Category:Zero waste]]\n[[Category:Sustainability demonstration events]]"}