Product: Netroots Nation registration bagApproximate weight: 5 pounds
Percent suitable for recycling: 80
Most recyclable item: Salsa-flavored tortilla chips from Wired for Change (already eaten)
Most interesting item: Condom from Center for Constitutional Rights
Item most prone to waste: Small t-shirt from One.org, which if I wasn't a damn dirty hippie would go right in the trash, but since I'm a treehugger I'll follow the instructions to go to the One.org booth to trade in the shirt for my proper size
Full credit for coining term "Schwag Bag": Meghan from WakeUpWalMart.com
The Green Miles' level of disappointment Netroots Nation didn't do anything at all to make their Schwag Bag less wasteful/more sustainable: 100 percent
4 comments:
I hope you'll keep your YES! Magazine. :-)
Of course, it's in my pile of reading for the flight home!
Cool to hear. By the way, you probably know, YES! is printed on 100% post-consumer waste paper. Let me know if you'd like a complimentary journalist subscription, and if you'd like to be on my regular email advisory list - sgleason(at)yesmagazine.org. Enjoy the conference!
Hi Ken. Your schwag bag analysis is infinitely wiser than ours. Yes, it is a lot of junk. Well done! I will start reading you all the time now.
but seriously don't use that CCR condom it's so terrifying!
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