WANTED: Corvallis Recycling Block Captains!

The Coalition’s Waste Prevention Action Team has launched an exciting program – Recycling Block Captains – and we invite additional Corvallis residents to participate.

As a recycling block captain, you can help educate your neighbors about recycling, composting, and waste prevention, as well as encourage their full participation in the opportunities that Allied Waste is currently providing. It takes just a couple hours every three to five months to participate. Recycling block captains have two primary responsibilities:

  • Distribute recycling information to your neighbors three to four times a year, and
  • Serve as a liaison between your neighbors and the Sustainability Coalition’s Waste Prevention Action Team.

The action team provides the handouts; the captains define their own neighborhood (number of homes and location).

Sign-up using this online form.

 

Existing Recycling Block Captain Neighborhoods

Note: Not all neighborhoods are marked yet.

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Already a Recycling Block Captain?

Our last gathering was in December 2012, and our next will likely be in March or April 2013.

Previous Block Captain Handouts

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Household Hazardous Waste Guide

How to Compost Food Waste in your Mixed Organics Cart

Food waste in your Mixed Organics cart

An Introduction to Home Composting

Home composting

Sneak Peak of the Corvallis ReUse Directory

ReUse Directory

 

Paper

Metal and Glass

Plastics

Mixed Organics cart overview

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waste Prevention: Vision

The Vision of the Waste Prevention Action Team is that by 2030, Corvallis is a waste-free community.



Waste Prevention: Goals

Goal 1: By 2020, the recycling rate for the Corvallis community will be 75%. (The recycling rate includes cardboard, commingled materials, electronics, food waste, office paper, wood waste, and yard debris that have been recycled.)

Goal 2:  By 2020, there will be a 50% reduction in the per capita weight of landfill disposal (discards).

Goal 3: By 2020, the Corvallis community will increase proper disposal of hazardous waste by 75%.

Waste Prevention: Current Projects

Corvallis Recycling Block Captain Program: A way for Corvallis citizens to educate their neighborhood about recycling and waste prevention.

Corvallis-Area ReUse Directory: A guide to all of the organizations and businesses in our area that accept items for reuse, and what they each accept.

Faith Communities Project: Outreach to local faith communities to help educate their congregations about waste prevention.