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Helping the Environment

Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary is working hard to make our annual race as environmentally friendly as possible. Listed below are the major things that we are doing to make the race "green".

All food is vegan Not only is a vegan diet the humane way to live your life, and better for your health, it is also better for the environment. It requires a lot more land, water and energy to produce animal products. Producing meat, dairy products and eggs also produces methane and other gases that greatly contributes to global warming. Producing animal products also generates more waste and pollution.
     
Organic cotton t-shirts with water based ink Ten percent of all agricultural chemicals in the United States are used to produce cotton. In 2000, this came to 75 million pounds of pesticides. In the US alone, nearly 7 million pounds of cotton seed a year is used for cattle feed. Organic cotton is grown without harmful chemicals. Water based ink contains no PVC or other harsh chemicals.
     
Online Virtual Good Bags While we will have treats for you to pick up at packet-pickup and before the race, rather than waste a lot of paper on flyers and coupons we will promote our sponsors through the Internet.
     
Using biodegradable utensils, cups and garbage bags. These products, donated by Trellis Earth Products Inc., are made out of biodegradable corn and are not petroleum based.
     
Each race participant will have a tree planted in their honor. To help offset the carbon footprint of this race, Trees for the Future will be planting a tree in honor of each race participant.
     
Strongly promoting carpooling Poplar Spring strongly encourages carpooling. Feel free to use our carpooling website.
     
Recycling and composting as much as possible Poplar Spring, along with Wheaton Regional Park, will be doing our best to recycle as much as possible, as well as composting certain products, such as the biodegradable utensils.
     
Collecting shoes to recycle We are collecting used athletic shoes, as well as any other type of shoe, at the race site to be recycled by Nike and/or sent to Africa for distribution (so bring your old shoes!).

 

 
       
   

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