Here at the ALX Dog Walk, we work hard to create an annual dog walk event and other year-long initiatives with sustainability at the core. While we’re certainly not a fully sustainable event (yet!), our annual dog walk event is a plastic-free zone and we reuse supplies, old election signs and metal frames, 100% cotton tablecloths, canvas banners – to name just a few approaches.
Creating sustainable events has exploded in popularity, and in the next few months, we will provide many tips and techniques about sustainable events, but first, we want to let you know about our sustainability event goals over the next year:
1) Promote A Plastic-Free Standard: We promise to continue requesting that our participating organizations at the annual dog walk host plastic-free tables.
2) Create Sustainable Marketing Materials: We promise to educate participating organizations to use printed materials of recycled paper or other degradable materials and consider other approaches like QR codes and digital information dissemination. New for us… at the ALX Dog Walk event, we will no longer print a morning agenda and instead feature all Walk information at the registration desk, on our social media, email newsletters, QR codes, and website. Any marketing materials that we print will be recyclable in nature.
3) Provide a Plastic-Free Goodie Bag: We promise to include only plastic-free goodies in the swag bag. New for us … we’re asking that all materials included the Goodie Bag be printed on recycled paper or other sustainable material.
4) Offer No Single Use Bottles: We promise to not use any single use bottles and our coffee cups will not be lined with plastic.
5) Use Eco-Friendly Vendors: We promise to continue building a vendor network of eco-friendly companies/vendors, and we will share this information with you.
6) Implement a Compost Program at Our Event/Minimize Waste: New for us… we promise to send our degradable waste to a composting vendor, and we will work hard to minimize waste throughout all of our events.
Whew! Time for a doggie nap.
lease share your sustainability goals (however big or small) and creativity with our pack!
Bark on!