Hi Everyone....I have a project started that is already going on in my house and around the Boulder Junction Community and I would like to extend it out to everyone else! I would love to take credit for it, but I can't, because to be honest I didn't know about it! We all know about recycling aluminum, old cell phones, ink cartridges, and plastic bottles....BUT...did you know that when we're all doing our part to recycle plastic bottles that the caps are not recycled? Maybe you did....but I didn't! The bottles themselves are recycled, while the caps are discarded. SO...that leads me to the project! Shape Magazine and Aveda Salons have paired up and started a project that runs through May 10th. They are collecting bottle tops from ANYTHING....water bottles, laundry detergent, Soda bottles, Milk bottles....and Aveda is recycling them and using those recycled caps as the caps for their products. So, I have started both recycling bottles AND their caps. For those of you at Leadership Academy, I am putting up a box for caps to go in and would love your help! What we are doing at my house is putting them in a box and then I'll bring them in! I'm encouraging everyone else to do the same, lets see how many we can collect and help save our earth in the process! Sorry guys, there's no real reward for it, other than to feel good about doing something good for the environment! For those of you who are not in the area, I encourage you to do the same thing. For more information about the project and where to go to take in the caps or send them to, log onto shape.com / aveda! That will give the address and also locations!
UPDATE: 5/17
Hi everyone....I just wanted to thank EVERYONE who saved their caps for recycling. On Saturday May 10th, I sent in 755 bottle caps to AVEDA! I also sent in an email to Shape and Aveda and am hoping that they will run some kind of story about it! I did get an email back from Aveda and they stated that they're going to keep going with recycling bottle caps, so that means I am going to as well! I am going to keep this project going through the summer, with the hopes of being able to collect a total of 4,000 bottle caps! We had nearly 1,000 in a month, so why not go for more?
In case I didn't make everyone aware of just what the importance is other than recycling, it's this. When the caps are "cut off" of the bottles that are being recycled, they are thrown into the land fills, oceans and other areas that animals will ingest them. When that happens, the animals "fill up" on bottle caps, and eventually die of malnutrition because their stomachs think that they are full, and obviously there are no nutrients in bottle caps. So, please continue to support my goal and effort in recycling bottle caps! We really can make a big impact!
Thanks everyone for all your help!
~ Jen Stough
National Leadership Team
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1 comment:
Awesome project Ms. Stough.
I want to note that you took a project idea, set a goal for yourself to get a certain type of result and completed that goal. ...THEN, (without hesitation) you reset your sights and are now shooting for a larger version of the same goal!
Everyone on the team could take something from this lesson and realize that you don't have to come up with a new project every month. Project Based Leadership Training is about simply starting a project that is important to you and then continually expanding on that project until it becomes something really big!...i.e. a WOW goal. You will feel a sense of accomplishment every time you finish a section of your project until you reach it's full potential.
So, Ms. Stough, I'm challenging you (as a Red Belt) to expand your methods of collecting caps even further out in the community to make this project a true success. If you collected 755 caps in a month is 10,000 caps a goal worthy of a Black Belt project?
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