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The Barnes Family - the Zimmerman/Brian Family the Kyle Family - the Johnson/Tompkins Family Dare to go Zero with Michael Bocanegra. When I met with each of the families, I welcomed them to the competition. We have some some gifts
for you to get started. I gave them the following items to help them on their journeys to a zero waste lifestyle.
This item
is a kitchen compost container.
In it you can collect leftover food scraps and then transfer them to your backyard compost bin.
There's also some reusable coffee mugs and reusable water bottles.
Americans buy around 28 billion plastic water bottles every year
and most of those end up in a landfill.
If every household eliminated or recycled just one out of every ten plastic bottles they
used,
it would keep 200 million pounds of plastic out of landfills each year. Finally
I gave each of the families some reusable tote bags to help them cut down on the number of
single-use plastic bags that end up in landfills or become litter which can pollute our rivers
and creeks. So that's three less plastic bags you bring home. That's a start in the right direction. Austin residents consume
approximately
263 million bags annually.
The goal for Dare to go Zero is for the families to reduce their trash
by the highest percentage
throughout the competition. So let's see what your weight is for this week.
Each week the familty that reduces their weight by the least percentage may be eliminated.
Hi. I'm Jason Brian and I'm a project manager, still good, for an online marketing company. I had to check it.
I am Julia Zimmerman.
My son is Will. He's seven months old.
We tend to try to recycle, uh, pretty much anything that is recyclable
"without causing ourselves too much difficulty"
"without causing ourselves too much difficulty"
Previously Jason was our only recyler. We have no idea what to do with eggplant but we buy it for some
reason because one day we'll do something with it. I definitely take out the recycling carts
and do the bulk amount of the recycling. Although I put the occassional thing in the recycling bin. I hope that's for him. I don't want to eat that.
I kind of want more
convenience, just toss it in the trash and not worry about it. Are we doing a cooking show?
or uh...
a garbage show?
But we're starting to, I think, use the rethink phrase more
than anything.
Nobody's going
make it happen.
Honestly a lot of it is just about our
ability to to do it in a way that uh... doesn't affect our lives. I have never recycled a paper towel
in my life. Have
you re-used a dirty one? Yes.
Why?
Not a dirty one. Just if it's drying my hands.
Jason is very stubborn
and very opinionated
He's very kind-hearted
he's very hardworking but
He can be difficult to work with
He, you know, you love him
or you don't
Luckily I do
But filming everything! They'll hear all of Daddy's stories
Always doing baby laundry
unfortunately
no shortage.
ultimately getting to a point zero waste to me means
not having to throw away anything that can
be reused or only bringing things into our house that are only reusable or recyclable
So what exactly is Zero Waste? Zero Waste focuses on reducing waste,
re-using products and composting the rest.
A zero-waste life style recognizes
everything is a resource for someone or something else.
Landfills will eventually reach capacity unless, I don't know, uh
black holes from out in the universe just comes and uh...gobbles everything up! (Electric tone is heard.) (Due to the blackhole, sorry we're experiencing technical difficulties)
Or existing landfills are expanded
new landfills are opened or waste is just drastically reduced through a zero waste life style.
Landfills release methane and other greenhouse gases that have impacts on our climate change.
So if we reduce the amount of trash that ends up in the our landfills
we'll help reduce greenhouse gases at the same time. The city of Austin has a Zero Waste goal
to reduce the amount of waste in the area landfills by 75% less by
2020
and 90% less by 2040.
In 2011 we're currently at 37% so we've got a lot of work to do
But fortunately for us, recycling in Austin is easy.
it all goes into one cart
And our program accepts
many different types of materials
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If you're not fast enough to record it,
don't worry!
(Rewind) Slows down and repeats Our program accepts many types of materials. List goes by more slowly)
If you didn't
catch that. Don't
worry. Go to if you think that's it
Austinrecycles.com
and click on the "what do I do with" Barnes Family (Blue team)
I'm Kathy and I'm in the (--) grade at (--) Middle school.
It used to be...
But it was the
did you know I think I think that their going win sinking
mining police and confines in terribly teacher
the goal of recycled of recycle
at the lowest now though places where we put the trash this is recycled
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making a incitement confused saying canyon n
me in my arms and being wanted
just to show no maybe karen that kind of a joke and idea of the guy who go through the
trash and pull something out you take this at the green
that stretch hit that indefinitely it
open it up
he would come home
look in the trial
also found in Simpson's recyclable that incendiary recycling but there's a bit
into pizza boxes and that
recycle can transplanting did you get anything with flat
my family and we are going to make a major segments that
louis event and I'm at a peace instantly and I will be the one that reminds the other people
know weakens home from work he knows
but she's been cooking dinner and should have something in the trash that's not supposed
to be the that she was served on the site
we do recycle at school
so I did try to set an example for the kids
I think part of the problem here at home is inconvenience event when you have to cancel
your cooking dinner in your unhurried
having to walk all the way to the pantry with the recycling
and realize it's not that far
but it is you know it *** when you're trying to keep keep an eye on the stove in
the kids so it wasn't as convenient
well these lee are recycled and lights and the whether it should send kar
comparing your high school okay it's not just leave it really annoyed me
traded letters is messing around and it is the only gained insists you have trust in
understand
more about recycling from you know fernandez and understand how to recycle having forwarded
now probably by walden
has been recycling over here
and
for yourself the party
which we've had to be a lot last year actually
a lot better
I laugh at yours like why do you care just recycling plays bass line past me
and
it was a serious about your irritating me badly
he's been really get madder
he is so frustrating are you living now
the length of no different than than men in a steaming kyle and I have a healthcare recruiting
firm here locally in Austin Texas.
how self-interest are thinking about my friend and a constant arguments we have about recycling
hitler cycle
julia buddy via creek way for him to president and let me know
sick inside about it flaking utica recycled this week
what was called the first one hundred
uh... there's we always like within the features rooms an absolute paper real really pushes
like you notice it going in there gross like recycling bud laws there's absolutely trashed
we are today
part of the state thirteen these lazy the lid for things that in a separate container
so
because a lot of things to starkly interactions Notice how I have Gatorade box.
Notice how
health in the lord
I'd open the trash
stopping elapsed selectivity and they can can
input outcast attack at his high school container
and it wasn't so charge for things that are recyclable and their disapproval polling mom
wonders and you know
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three women in the house is kinda hard you don't like him at the same unit
actually tompkins i worked for workers with community have been fired at the seven years
such a thing let's wait like a a
any healthy at like wilsonville
latitude that need to view
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time said think about you know
administrations
the helps hysterical
aside for work
descended on the part of you come up with the right now there's some products of the
road you need to be out of the bed a little bit like a a
left by monday
welfare with had
our first family
them in one family your best mark twain's twenty-five pair
gotta come down from their we have the Johnson family in yorba smart totally eighteen
if and that we have the bonds family in your benchmark photos twenty three pair
We have the Kyle family
your best mark those seven there
uh... the first-ever going there always is knowing what to do
with household items that you no longer need or want in the celebrated its session dollars
recycling and waste reduction some items are worth five points.
There's old ruins,
pizza boxes
in cartons, cellphones performance insiders.
All other items are worth just one point
and if you put any item
in the "other" category you will have to explain
where it goes in order to get those points.
The last thing is, remember you can only pick up one item but it's not so everyone please
Get your starting position
Sorters of leisure hands
Coaches please remain behind the cans throughout the game.
Everybody ready?
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through properly. How do you think you did. Awesome. I think we did well.
What's going to the white were added to have a hearing your "other" pile.
Well, I clearly sparked riots trees will be purpose
and and designers
and I think I gather that you can easily three states likes the country overnight but also
heard that you can use by the partners warren's out there
part dash or something like that. I need to research that one
uh... looks it was fortunately
happen
because
there
that today
but dry-cleaner, I think they recycle them. I'm not sure reuse them
I got this
stuff
within a specifically
to would
it will take that themself and there's a placement hazardous waste
household hazardous waste silly at yahoo reconcile a almost senatorial almost like reprisal
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events five charts graphs
there's a lot
with a lot
that not only with this type of us who we
don't have to recycle something uses brought the family
how do you guys think
and okay
acts out grayscale adding value that would be better
right now explain to me what you have in your "other" pile.
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and or idea while
it appear that it that way it's probably never going to pick up at the top we have to be
a flight attendant and other parts of the in use it again regular short brother event
to have a propane tank eatery l_a_ aulac
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that they've like only done with
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how do you think you'd be a good person
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which was twenty years younger than
with
so that the other part here so if there's quite a bit here you go through with that
six-packs a day
where this evidence
this plastic thing is
would be for collection adam correct
uh... the liberal it also claim that for collection
the uh... higher
with people
along with the
the couple things here that could be the cycle grocery store a store that would take sleeping
bags back
if we have flipping placed stuff city Austin with the leaves you can also put on the composting
baird continues in as compost so that's another idea how do you guys thank you for your first
day
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and
bulgaria love let me know what you have your the file
here and that's
needed expertise looks like you've got a couple of years
and
spirit flat on the scene at least likely to trash
and this is about a half
and
you're going to add switched off
and everybody where to find out a lot of bars
there
someone else's coordinator senator Bryan family made a score of 54 points
correct
connection of the Barnes family
had a score of 70 points
rather Johnson family
85 and
last but not least
we have the Kyle family
and they have 70 points to the word josh family acd so here's what she was on some
family
environment which will include it
uh... indicate we have some not so far the whites
we also have
uh... some about your family the target and we also have some all-purpose there there's
some other things it fed freemen you it's your prize
um... remember that all the containers you won't be able to recycle thing with the way
about that also try right now what is it when you go to the grocery story makers grocery
list about cleaning supplies remembered minnesota by those brands go buy something that's environmental
friendly west officially as this
the sellers
so you can't have a lot of work to do this winter try to reduce the amount of waste having
to your home the pack
remember the for ours
regions reuse recycle and repay expenses
yet another zero
correctly with the way through this week
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hold we do know
why are you serious
fees reduced life so you know when this challenge we certainly have turned to be a little more
proactive about
briana habitat respectable this week's their martin's composted heckman
backed off a little bit and let him take the lead and i think that made a nervous with
lights there haha in there
air that might help the students women
yeah at that time communicative home the president looked like what we can get them both well
miserable supporting around for me
for joint again next week when into what families
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