Celebrate your graduation, respect the city
It’s only four pieces of confetti, two eggs and a bit of flour to throw at someone who has just graduated. What could possibly happen?
When celebrating graduation, people often overlook the fact that even the smallest gestures can have a negative environmental and social impact.
Plastic confetti and streamers can take hundreds of years to decompose, causing harm both to the environment and to animals, which may ingest them. Eggs, flour and other substances used for pranks can cause persistent mess. Before celebrating this milestone with traditional student pranks, it is important to be aware of this.
Celebrating with “zero impact” is possible. If you prefer to throw eggs on the ground, lay down a sheet and try not to make a mess. Use sustainable, environmentally friendly substances and materials. Did you know that biodegradable confetti exists, some of it made from flower seeds?
Even small gestures matter. Do your part to help keep our environment clean.
Celebrate graduation, respect the city.
What we can do
- leave the spaces as you would like to find them
- avoid waste
- collect waste and dispose of it properly
- do not use plastic confetti under any circumstances
- use biodegradable or compostable plates, cups and cutlery
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