I educate people about recycling. Among other things, I create and send environmental guides to 170,000 households every year, I just coordinated the redesign of our tri-city web site, and I talk to people all the time about proper disposal and how to recycle everything from cans to televisions. It's my job to inform people about waste and recycling so they hopefully change their habits in a positive way.
But the education isn't always so "far off"...sometimes it's much closer to "home" and happens right in my office. Hehehe...
My prime example...my pride and joy...the MIGHTY BALL OF FOIL.
That's right. For four years I've collected aluminum foil from my coworkers and made it into a ball. Layer by layer it has grown. Here it is as a baby foil ball from about 3 1/2 years ago. (This is a horrid picture of a picture because I couldn't find an original, nevertheless you can see my excitement.)
It actually started with Hershey Kisses wrappers. Did you know that Hershey's wraps 20 million Kisses per day using 133 square miles of foil?!? And all of that usually gets thrown away. BUT NOT HERE. No way...I was bound and determined to collect as many as I could (and then it naturally led to collecting larger pieces of foil) to make a ball. Even the tough guys around the office, the ones who'd sometimes scoff at some girl who wants them to change their ways and what, recycle (?!?), would bring me their Hershey Kisses wrappers and then the foil from last night's dinner. Ha! It turned into a phenomenon for a while there, every morning I'd get into my cube and there would be a sheet of the shiny metallic foil.
Here is the ball...along with some bad asses of the office. I love my job. :)
My goal was to one day roll the ball out of the office and into the recycling facility. I might still do that (it's definitely getting recycled)...I just need to find a photographer to document the event (Angela Hanson where are you when I need you?!).
Here is the final version of the ball. 4 years after its inception. And since this is the last week of my job here, I felt it appropriate to share with the world the ball of foil.
Hehehehe...so much fun:) I will miss this place and the fun we've had here...
