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I made these paper bracelets to make the event felt a lot cooler than it was :’) |
Yesterday at work, a co-worker and I hosted a trash-related internal event. Come to think of it, it was kind of insane, to have practically only two people in the committee—not going to lie, I was stressed out of my mind. Basically, the event goes like this: we find a field near the workplace that is filled with garbage, we collect all that waste and give them to the waste bank. Simple, right?
Yeah…in theory. It turns out to be much harder than that—especially given the Indonesian bureaucracy. It’s even harder to try to organise the people at work to gather at the same time—a negative Nelly not helping, of course. But we finally managed it.
Already at the start, the event was delayed—due to some under preparation on our part and other issues. We should’ve started at 1PM, but ended up starting at around 1.30PM. There were a total of 28 people from work joining the event and we divided them into 6 groups. We distributed trash bags, masks and gloves among them and led them to the field on foot—it was only a 3-minute walk away. The field, by the way, is like an aviary kingdom, with numerous chickens, ducks and one King Turkey.
Photos by my beloved boss Mas Indra
Here’s where things started to go horribly wrong: as we reached the field at 2PM, it started raining. At first, we powered through—all the groups were free to roam about the field and gather all the trash that they could get their hands on. It wasn’t long, before the drizzle turns into quite a windy rain. Needless to say, we had to cut the event short—from the original 75 minutes of trash collecting, to 20 minutes and then to 5 minutes—and we headed back to the office.
While the participants helped themselves to fresh mango mixed with dragonfruit juice my partner provided, the committee weighed the trash bags to determine which group got the most garbage. The total amount of garbage collected in the span of 5 minutes alone, by the way, makes up 26.5kg. How insane is that?!
Afterwards, we announced the winner and rewarded them with some cool prizes—ahem, stainless steel straw set, ahem. It was around 2.35PM when the whole thing ended. Truth be told, my partner and I still need to sort the waste to be picked up by the waste bank—but that’s a tale for another day.
Thank you to everyone at work who participated and supported our event! We’re definitely still new at this so it was all over the place, but we’d love to do this again more regularly. Of course, we’d love to have your support then too.
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I made these paper bracelets to make the event felt a lot cooler than it was :’) |
Yesterday at work, a co-worker and I hosted a trash-related internal event. Come to think of it, it was kind of insane, to have practically only two people in the committee—not going to lie, I was stressed out of my mind. Basically, the event goes like this: we find a field near the workplace that is filled with garbage, we collect all that waste and give them to the waste bank. Simple, right?
Yeah…in theory. It turns out to be much harder than that—especially given the Indonesian bureaucracy. It’s even harder to try to organise the people at work to gather at the same time—a negative Nelly not helping, of course. But we finally managed it.
Already at the start, the event was delayed—due to some under preparation on our part and other issues. We should’ve started at 1PM, but ended up starting at around 1.30PM. There were a total of 28 people from work joining the event and we divided them into 6 groups. We distributed trash bags, masks and gloves among them and led them to the field on foot—it was only a 3-minute walk away. The field, by the way, is like an aviary kingdom, with numerous chickens, ducks and one King Turkey.
Photos by my beloved boss Mas Indra
Here’s where things started to go horribly wrong: as we reached the field at 2PM, it started raining. At first, we powered through—all the groups were free to roam about the field and gather all the trash that they could get their hands on. It wasn’t long, before the drizzle turns into quite a windy rain. Needless to say, we had to cut the event short—from the original 75 minutes of trash collecting, to 20 minutes and then to 5 minutes—and we headed back to the office.
While the participants helped themselves to fresh mango mixed with dragonfruit juice my partner provided, the committee weighed the trash bags to determine which group got the most garbage. The total amount of garbage collected in the span of 5 minutes alone, by the way, makes up 26.5kg. How insane is that?!
Afterwards, we announced the winner and rewarded them with some cool prizes—ahem, stainless steel straw set, ahem. It was around 2.35PM when the whole thing ended. Truth be told, my partner and I still need to sort the waste to be picked up by the waste bank—but that’s a tale for another day.
Thank you to everyone at work who participated and supported our event! We’re definitely still new at this so it was all over the place, but we’d love to do this again more regularly. Of course, we’d love to have your support then too.