Comments on: Green Even Ain’t so Green http://charlesredell.com/blog/2008/07/15/green-even-aint-so-green/ Life in all its various formats. Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:27:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: More on “Green” trade shows » A Charlie Tryin’ to Get By http://charlesredell.com/blog/2008/07/15/green-even-aint-so-green/comment-page-1/#comment-3643 More on “Green” trade shows » A Charlie Tryin’ to Get By Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:37:08 +0000 http://charlesredell.com/blog/?p=224#comment-3643 [...] Zeke pointed out below, “green” trade shows are not the only ones that produce amazing amounts of waste. [...] [...] Zeke pointed out below, “green” trade shows are not the only ones that produce amazing amounts of waste. [...]

]]> By: Zeke http://charlesredell.com/blog/2008/07/15/green-even-aint-so-green/comment-page-1/#comment-3641 Zeke Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:16:30 +0000 http://charlesredell.com/blog/?p=224#comment-3641 One of the worst offenders at these conferences is press materials and other PR-related junk. Every company feels the need to produce these thick folders with fact sheets, press releases, DVDs, etc, the vast majority of which gets flipped through once and then dropped in some hotel garbage can. I attended the Cannes ad festival a few years back, where every journalist is given a small mailbox in the conference center that every PR firm and ad agency and what have you can just stuff full of promotional junk. My friend weighed his final tally: 44 pounds of utterly useless garbage, most of it not recyclable. And the kicker is, ALL this shit can simply be sent digitally, which is how most journalists prefer it anyway. Not sure where this actually ranks on the ladder of environmental offenders--keeping Al Gore's house cool in the summer probably causes more pollution overall--but it's really just a disgusting practice to which I hate being a party. I feel complicit cause I'm one of the people they're producing it for. I wish they would just ask me - I'd tell them to stop wasting their money. And you know, I hate the environment. I burn Styrofoam for laughs. Just to give you some perspective. One of the worst offenders at these conferences is press materials and other PR-related junk. Every company feels the need to produce these thick folders with fact sheets, press releases, DVDs, etc, the vast majority of which gets flipped through once and then dropped in some hotel garbage can.

I attended the Cannes ad festival a few years back, where every journalist is given a small mailbox in the conference center that every PR firm and ad agency and what have you can just stuff full of promotional junk. My friend weighed his final tally: 44 pounds of utterly useless garbage, most of it not recyclable. And the kicker is, ALL this shit can simply be sent digitally, which is how most journalists prefer it anyway.

Not sure where this actually ranks on the ladder of environmental offenders–keeping Al Gore’s house cool in the summer probably causes more pollution overall–but it’s really just a disgusting practice to which I hate being a party. I feel complicit cause I’m one of the people they’re producing it for. I wish they would just ask me – I’d tell them to stop wasting their money.

And you know, I hate the environment. I burn Styrofoam for laughs. Just to give you some perspective.

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