2 Days Left!

This past week has been crazy busy, we are learning the in's and out's of publicity! Ryan and I have come to the conclusion it's a full-time job! After getting the Museum's approval we rushed into action to get the word out and FAST! Thanks to Betsy Vandercook, the President of the Chicago Recycling Coalition (www.chicagorecycling.org), we had a complete list of media sources to contact and advice on how to do it best!

We refined our Press Release until it was perfect, then rushed to our dear friend Alan Cohen (www.alan-cohen.com) who let us fax and email the news to a 100 different media sources. Thank you!

Since then the RIC team members have met up to construct the eight clear plastic garbage bags for the sculpture which measure 12.5' in length each! We have completed the final collection of the 5-week pick-up program for the 15 houses, cleaned and dryed all the recyclables, gathered the surveys, graphed the information, created a huge wooden sign for the event, washed all the blue bins, made RIC t-shirts and are preparing to host 2 Canadians from the Canadian RIC Team who are able to join us for the event! It's been "active".

The response for this project has been overwhelming and we are very excited about Saturday! The Canadian contingent will be arriving shortly so I better stop writing for now.

Ps. If you're from Chicago and want to help us improve Chicago's recycling program don't hesitate to email us at recyclingintervention@gmail.com.


RIC Members John and Woul Eun hard at work!


Neighbor giving me her recycling! Thank you!
(Note the new RIC t-shirt.)


Ryan painting the sign surrounded
by blue bins. We're almost ready!