Take the One Ton Challenge

The Clean Air Campaign and the region's transportation management associations are celebrating one year of success with the One Ton Challenge. In the past year, commuters like you have helped get Mother Earth back on track to better health by keeping more than 3,600 tons of pollution out of Georgia’s air!

How much is 3,600 tons of pollution? It’s about the same weight as:

850 elephants
90 tractor-trailers
20 locomotives
16 Statues of Liberty
360,000 bicycles

What is the One Ton Challenge?

The One Ton Challenge is a regional effort to encourage everyone to use a commute alternative. By not driving alone just one day per week, each metro Atlanta commuter can avoid emitting one ton of pollutants into the air over a course of one year. Celebrate the One Ton Challenge’s year anniversary with us by taking the challenge!

Small changes can make a "ton" of difference. You do the math:

• 1 mile driven = 1 pound of air pollution¹ ²
• 40 miles driven (the average metro commuter’s daily round trip) = 40 pounds of pollution³
• 40 pounds of pollution x 52 days (one day a week for a year) = 2,080 pounds (or 1 ton) of pollution you can keep out of our air by clean commuting.
• Take the One Ton Challenge and commit to carpooling, riding transit, teleworking or any other commute alternative once a week for the next year. Join the hundreds of thousands of metro Atlantans making a difference to improve our air quality and traffic congestion.

Refer a Friend

Encourage your co-workers and friends to take the challenge and you will get entered into drawings to win a Clean Air Campaign t-shirt. Each referral earns an entry in the drawing and encourages another person to take action for cleaner air in Georgia. Stay tuned for more details!

Take the Challenge

Register now for the One Ton Challenge!

¹ U.S. Department of Energy: Technical Guidelines Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases (1605(b)) Program. (March 2006).
² U.S. Environmental protection Agency: Light-Duty Automotive Technology and Fuel Economy Trends: 1975 through 2007. (September 2007).
³ Metro Atlanta’s 2007 State of the Commute. Center for Transportation and the Environment on behalf of the Georgia Department of Transportation.