Thursday, July 17, 2008

Now That's an Excessive Package: Netroots Nation Schwag Bag

Product: Netroots Nation registration bag

Approximate 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
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4 comments:

  1. Susan GleasonJuly 17, 2008 at 2:23 PM

    I hope you'll keep your YES! Magazine. :-)

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  2. TheGreenMilesJuly 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM

    Of course, it's in my pile of reading for the flight home!

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  3. Susan GleasonJuly 17, 2008 at 6:45 PM

    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!

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  4. UnknownJuly 21, 2008 at 10:57 AM

    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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