Experiences and Human Agency: Mindful Movie Night- The Clean Bin Project
- Apr 23, 2016
- 3 min read
Mindful Movie Night began last September and was created by local actors Erin Ireland and The Juice Truck. Erin Ireland is a
“passionate food reporter for CTV Morning Live, BC Living Magazine and her site, itstodiefor.ca, which serves to connect Vancouverites with the most delicious and ethically-sourced food in the city. Great taste isn’t the only thing that qualifies a food as “to die for”. For Erin, how and where the ingredients were grown has become as important as the meal itself.
When Erin realized the depth of responsibility she carries in her role as a food reporter, she made a goal to centre her career passions of food and dining around well-informed, healthful, and ethical broadcasting. Getting to know the individuals who produce the food she eats make it impossible for her to stock her kitchen with mass produced goods.” (It’s to Die For, 2016)
The Juice Truck is Vancouver’s first cold pressed juicing company. Cold pressed juices retain more vitamins, minerals, and enzymes compared to other forms of juicing. They have a strong mandate to support local food systems and organic produce so they source ethically for their juices.
On April 19th Erin Ireland, The Juice Truck, and Zero Waste Market Vancouver hosted a mindful movie night. These movie nights aim to open our minds to issues that persist in our day to day lives and hopefully inspire us to make small changes to have a more positive impact on the planet. I follow Erin on various social media platforms and have wanted to attend one of these movie nights but haven’t had the chance to yet. When I figured out that I was finally available to attend this one I was super excited! I had zero knowledge about what zero waste referred to before I attended this event. It is simply a movement to reduce the use of unnecessary encouraged to bring our own containers and bottles to place the food they provided. This was definitely a first for me but I found the concept quite interesting.
The Clean Bin Project documented a Vancouver couple (Jen and Grant) who decided to reduce their waste to almost nothing for a year. The rules they set were:
No buying stuff. (We cannot buy any material goods.)
No producing garbage. This means “avoid packaging”. (We cannot buy anything that comes in non-recyclable packaging and we must avoid excess packaging)
Take responsibility for your waste. (We must take all waste produced personally by us home with us to recycle, compost, etc.) (Clean Bin Project, 2016)
This was inevitably hard for them in the beginning as food alone has so much packaging (ex. plastic around cheese, containers for yogurt, milk jugs or cartons, etc). Through persistence Jen and Grant managed to learn and reduce waste. They bring containers to grocery stores of farmers’ markets to put food in, reuse plastic storage bags, and most importantly had fun and learned a lot. About 20 minutes into the movie I realized that the zero waste movement can be argued as part of AFNs which made the movie more interesting. In the end Jen and Grant had a small bin of garbage each and for the most part stuck to the rules.
After the movie there was discussion about the documentary and the zero waste movement. It was interesting to hear the amount of knowledge that people have about it and their passion for it. I had no idea such a concept existed and learned so much.
Read more:
http://itstodiefor.ca/mindful-movie-night-10-will-feature-the-clean-bin-project-with-special-guest-co-hosts-from-zero-waste-market/
http://www.thejuicetruck.ca/pages/about-us
https://cleanbinproject.com/
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