Tina Muir is founder and CEO of Running for Real.

Whose Trash Is It, Anyway?

Bags of trash collected during a running event in New York City. Courtesy Tina Muir

We need to rethink the way we see waste. Instead of using our mental and physical energy picking up the slack for others, we need to use those moments to project our voices, asking those in positions of money and power what they are doing to fix the problem.