Five Things We Can Do to Be a Zero Waste Church

Some of the following we have been already or starting to do.

1. Do a trash audit. What gets thrown away each week?

  What can be recycled? What might be composted? 

  Could single-use items be replaced w/reusables?

2. Strongly discourage disposable plastic water bottles, 

   & use pitchers & reusable cups or compostable cups.

3. Communicate with electronic versions of newsletters 

   whenever/wherever possible.

4. Recycle and look for ways to reduce what you recycle. 

A very simple way to keep trash out of the landfill.

5. Use real sugar & creamer in dispensers rather than 

single-use packages.

  (Most of these can be useful in our homes as well.)

(Source: zerowastechurch.org.)