This is the year zero waste golf was born. It started out as idea being tossed around by a few buddies. Nurtured by optimists, luckily presented to an interested and capable decision maker, joined by enthusiastic associates, adopted by government agencies and opened to the public at Dairy Creek Golf Course in San Luis Obispo California.
This is a year to remember. As zero waste becomes the norm at golf courses worldwide in the next few years, remember this blogspot as the beginning of a global movement using golf courses as community environmental and educational assets. It's just not cool to trash the environment any more, and businesses that promote zero waste next year are going to be the next generation of environmental leaders.
Zero waste is a concept reserved for leaders. Anyone promoting zero waste in their community IS a leader, and then those who are adopt zero waste become the next generation of leaders, and so on. The funny thing about zero waste is that it's hard to define in it's entirety. Zero waste is huge. Zero waste is almost too big to be defined, but yet, it is applicable to most every action and transaction. Heck, zero waste is applicable to future actions. As example, BEFORE you buy products, if you're a zero waster, you'll think about the impact of the product or its packaging will eventually impact the waste stream...precycling.
Once we start defining zero waste for ourselves, we find ourselves sharing the definition with others. Next thing you know they are repeating their versions of the zero waste concept to their friends and coworkers...and then the idea goes viral on social media...and then the world is changed forever. In future years, when all golf courses adopt zero waste protocols as every day best management practices, I will always remember that 2011 was the first year of zero waste golf.
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