Racing To Zero is a quick moving, up-tempo documentary that presents new solutions to the global problem of waste. Although waste may create garbage, garbage is in itself a RESOURCE, and that is the key.
WHY
Because we are beginning to drown in our garbage!
It is important to understand that garbage has an enormous impact on global warming, in fact, it contributes to 44% of the greenhouses gases that are affecting the environment. The size of the problem is reflected by the World Bank’s first global analysis in which they project a staggering increase in garbage during the next 13 years—from 1.43 billion tons per year to 2.42 billion tons per year in 2025.
SF is responding and has already received global recognition for it’s 80% recycling average.
HOW
By changing our relationship to garbage!
Guess What? Although waste may create garbage, garbage is in itself, a RESOURCE It is now almost all recycyclable, has another life, can become something else.
This new culture of awareness is spreading, both ordinary people and extraordinary people are trying to make a difference. New practices, new businesses, new composting technologies and new sources of energy, have resulted from their efforts to eliminate all waste, so that nothing goes to landfill and everything has another life. Solutions are popping up everywhere! To date not everything is solvable but the Race is on.
REMEMBER: THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT!
