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Active Green Revolt Project: Packaging Accountability

As part of Green Revolt, I’m committing to putting my money where my mouth is.

Over the past few months, while collecting and saving my household waste for use in my art practice, a pattern became impossible to ignore: almost everything I was throwing away wasn’t “used up” — it was packaging.

That realization shifted my focus.

After  I create a local recycling infographic to make sorting easier in my community, I will turn my attention to packaging accountability — not by trying to ban products or shame consumers, but by making what’s happening visible.

This project follows three simple principles:

• Material Evidence – documenting what actually enters our waste stream

• System Listening – learning directly from landfill and recycling operators about where the system breaks down

• Public Transparency – sharing clear, local information so pressure lands where change is possible

The goal isn’t perfection or quick fixes - it is clarity.

• PLAN: to go to my local gov't with a pilot plan to enforce EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) for 2-3 common products that are some of the hardest on the recycling systems here in town and then track those impacts.

• HYPOTHESIS: The impacts will be impressive and we can extend this pilot project into a real plan for more products, and it shouldn't take long for other towns/cities around us to join in.

I believe my town is not only ready for this, but will LOVE this plan, and I will happily do what I can to help get it going!