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Summertime Fast Food Roadshow

What are your thoughts about Fast Food packaging? Leave a comment. You can also check out the dates for the roadshow here.

Join us on the summer roadshow highlighting the fast food packaging problem. Summertime means road trips, fun in the sun, and… fast food packaging? Join us this summer in solving the packaging problem by challenging fast food corporations like Yum! Food Brand (bringing you KFC, Taco Bell, and more) to stop using packaging from endangered Southern forests.

Don't forget to leave your comments about fast food packaging!

Roadshow preview

June 20-June 28^th

Goals: Highlight the packaging problem through a series of presentations in some of the most endangered Southern forests, like the Green Swamp .

Interview people outside of fast food restaurants—what are your thoughts about fast food packaging coming from the forests in our backyard?

Document some of the amazing forests throughout the south—check out the blog for updates from our local tours with people fighting to protect these areas.

June 20th at 6pm

Where: New Hanover County Main Library, Caper Fear Room

201 Chestnut Street
Wilmington, NC 28401

What: A presentation about endangered Southern forests including the Green Swamp and other coastal areas, what’s at stake, the impacts of industrial scale logging on our forests, why we should protect these special areas, and how. See below for more information.

June 21^st at 7pm

Friends of the Green Swamp monthly meeting presentation in Whitesville, NC

Surfrider Foundation Cape Fear Chapter, dedicated to the protection of our beaches for today and tomorrow, meeting tabling at Wrightsville Beach from 12-2pm.

June 22^nd

Lake Waccamaw State Park meeting at 6pm

June 25th 6:30-7:30pm

Where: Ernie Morgan Environmental Action Center—Conference Room. 3500-A Granby Street: 441-1347, Norfolk, VA. Located in Lafayette Park, next to the Virginia Zoo. For directions, click here.

What: A presentation about endangered Southern forests including the Great Dismal Swamp and other coastal areas, what’s at stake, the impacts of industrial scale logging on our forests, why we should protect these special areas, and how. See below for more information.

June 28^th

US Social Forum in Atlanta, GA

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Expanding Wastelines and Wastelands!
written by Gulf Aaron, June 12, 2007

Not much to redeem Yum Brands line of products. Will their paper sourcing decisions be the straw that broke the bohemoth's back? I hope so! Keep up the great work DA!

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Fast Food Gives Forests Bad Complexion
written by Sundown Slim, June 12, 2007

Why do they have to give you 8 napkins in the drive thru? Why do they need to put a small fries in such a big "to-go" bag? And why does Yum! foods want to ruin its good name by ignoring where its massive amount of paper packaging comes from? I smell change a comin'.

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written by Tish, June 12, 2007

I am so thankful for your hard work and efforts to make the masses aware of what fast food packaging is doing to our landfills and ecosystems. I never knew!!!!!!! It upsets me because i try to do a lot to leave less of an imprint on the planet for the sake of future generations yet i have eaten Mcdonalds and Long John Silvers oblivious to what i was supporting in terms of packaging. Thank u for telling me. What u do is so important, keep spreading the word. Tish Ruegger

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Not Worth Taking from the Land OR Putting In Our Bodies
written by Abigail Underwood, June 12, 2007

It's terrible that such a useless enterprise would feel the right to destroy our land and forests. Let's put a stop to this waste of resources by refusing to eat the stuff altogether. We would have healthier bodies with which to enjoy our beautiful natural resources!

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written by jena roberts, June 12, 2007

When I was very young Iron eyes bill cody ,the American Idian of the Keep America Beautiful campaign, shared a tear with me via the television screen and enlightened me to the plight of littered animal habitats and streams with streams littered with the waste of the lazy and disrespectful consumers of fast food. Bravo to Dogwood alliance for taking up this very important task.

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Not just fast foods
written by Lisa Payne, June 12, 2007

I am a public school teacher who has the dubious duty of also patrolling the lunch room. Several of us have taken it upon ourselves to push trash barrels on wheels around the room to collect trash. Foam trays, plastic cutlery, stacks of unused napkins, plastic and paper beverage containers, plus numerous other items of recyclable materials are thrown away. We do have recycling cans, but they are not always readily available, and the students don't always use them.
I'm at a point where I do whatever I can to avoid eating at fast food restaurants and purchasing over-packaged items (try that one at Costco...)
DA, you are doing a great service toward protecting our ever-diminishing resources.
Thank you.

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Too Much, Too Cheap, Too Fast!
written by Ashevegas Andy, June 14, 2007

Just say no! When you understand the true cost of the fast food experience -- from the food to the packaging and the sprawl -- it just makes it that much worse.

Next time, I'm going to pass.

Andy

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written by Kathryn Hodge, June 17, 2007

damned if you do damned if you don't
mcdonalds went from styrofoam (non biodegradable/plastic)
to paper but the bottom line is we would be smart to shut down drive through lines anyway as they produce tons of CO2 while drivers wait, then the litter occurs...go to serving on cafeteria trays inside service only

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written by Kathryn Hodge, June 17, 2007

second thought...personal philosophy...folks have such little control of their lives that they must keep the car clean to feel "in control"...thus you have random acts of
litter (especially in unseen curves along country roads),
we have huge numbers of car washes in our town, I even saw a man hose down his pickup truck and monsterous camper
in the campground to keep it sparkling white

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written by Kathryn Hodge, June 17, 2007

third thought...california just went to required recycling and a woman from London England was surprised as they have had mandatory recycling for years (they pay by the pound for garbage waste but recycling at curbside if paid for by taxes)

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