EVENTS
2014
TRASH ON YOUR BACK 5 day global Challenge®
SBN is partnering again this year with Sustainability News & Entertainment® USA (SNAE)
in the Global SNAE ‘TRASH ON YOUR BACK 5 DAY CHALLENGE’®
Have you ever wondered about the answer to this simple
question..."What is my personal trash impact on the planet”?
Well, it’s a lot!!!
America completed their pilot 5 Day Challenge in April 2012
and SBN launched the Australian pilot program of the SNAE
Trash On Your Back 5 Day Challenge® on World Environment
Day June 5th – June 9th 2013.
“TOYB identifies a very real problem in our society and some
very simple strategies to address it. Our students learnt a great
deal about the impact of their food choices on our environment
and how changing patterns to select items in bulk, in recycled
or reuseable packaging and with minimal food miles can make
profound differences to the amount of waste we generate. It is
an outstanding life lesson and fun for all!”
Michelle Rayner, Assistant Principal The Patch Primary School
From students to sports stars, mayors to mums, over 400
Americans and more than 1000 Australians took to the
streets with their ‘TRASH ON YOUR BACK®’ eco-friendly bags,
to take up the 2013 challenge of carrying all non-perishable
trash that they personally generated over 5 days.
Calling all Trash Warriors!
Join the challenge and be a part of this fun
and informative ‘hands on’ global event
April 21-25th and/or June 2-6 2014
In collaboration with KIOSC Discovery Centre at Swinburne
University (Australia) and the University of New Hampshire
(USA), the metrics are calculated to evaluate the ‘cradle to
grave’ raw material to landfill impact on our planet. The
purpose of this ‘TRASH ON YOUR BACK 5 DAY CHALLENGE’®
Sister Nation event is to encourage waste impact awareness,
sustainable citizenship thinking and systemic behaviour
change through this ‘hands on’ educational experience – as
well as to see how our ‘Trash Warriors’ can reduce their
waste impact, compared with the national average for each
nation.
The results of H