People make everyday decisions out of habit. They may rarely give much thought to what they do with an empty soda can, how often they buy new clothes, or where they put that half-eaten apple left on a plate. Helping community members change their habits from wasteful to resourceful requires a plan. And hope.Leaders of the Greater Greenville Sanitation District (GGSD) in South Carolina envisioned that kind of a plan when they created a Sustainable Schools Program in 2015. The aim was to create positive attitudes and action toward waste reduction and recycling."We realized that our plan needed to be long term and reflect the realities of how people live, worked and play today," said Chuck LaGrange, GGSD's public affairs and sustainability officer. "People want things that are convenient, portable and readily available. ... We realized that we had to equally emphasize all areas of the waste hierarchy and not just recycling."GGSD created a program focusing on public school students in an effort to spawn an epidemic of positive attitudes and behaviors about recycling and waste minimization - a universal goal in the waste industry.
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