Answer: A 6-inch ball of shrinkwrap.
Question: How much trash is leftover when Daisy Janie receives a shipment of Geo Grand?
Multiply this small ball of trash by 4, and you have the total amount of solid trash leftover when all of Geo Grand is shipped to DJ headquarters from India and when all of it is shipped back out to my retailers.
Incoming shipments include fabrics wrapped in LDPE plastic bags (in accordance with GOTS) in cardboard boxes on wooden pallets wrapped in shrinkwrap. Everything but the shrinkwrap is recycled or repurposed*. Outgoing shipments include fabrics packaged in recycled, blank newspaper pages and contained in cardboard boxes. Both are fully recyclable.
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*Hold everything! This isn't trash after all! I just googled recycling for shrinkwrap and learned there are programs to which you can donate your LDPE and HDPE shrink wraps. Dr. Shrink offers a REBAG recycling kit you can buy to collect your shrinkwrap; the address is on the bag - kind of like ink cartridge recycling. Seems a lot of marinas offer recycling programs as well b/c they use a lot of shrinkwrap on the boats in the winter. { I love The Google! }
I'm extremely proud of this accomplishment - it's consistent with my desire to make Daisy Janie's carbon footprint as small as possible. Other green initiatives include purchasing wind energy credits to offset our home's electricity (where my office-studio is located). I also purchase credits from TerraPass when I set up freight for shipments, to offset the carbon footprint of the trucks. Not a perfect solution to being green, but it's a step in the right direction! It allows me to vote with my dollars just as consumers do when they choose organic cotton fabrics like Geo Grand in favor of non-organic cotton fabrics.
above & below: Trash in black & white. Beautiful.
