Help educate your neighbors about recycling, composting and waste prevention. Block captains distribute recycling information to their neighbors three times a year. You define your territory and we provide the handouts.
Already a Recycling Block Captain?
Handout Gathering —
Monday, November 14 • 5pm
- Meeting video
- Captain map
- Download quarter-sheet introductory letters
- Questions? Contact Dawn Marie Gaid
Block Captain Handouts
- Can Food Waste Go In My Yard Cart? (fall 2022)
- How Much Do You Know Before You Throw? (spring 2022)
- D.I.Y. Wasted Food Discovery Week (winter 2021)
- Are you Recycling…or Wish-Cycling? (summer 2020)
- Keeping It in the Community: Buying Used (fall 2019)
- Composting at the Curb (summer 2019)
- Ditching Dining Disposables (spring 2019)
- Wasted Food: Facts & Impacts (fall 2018)
- Recycling Works! (summer 2018)
- The Package Deal: How to Cut Costs & Waste with Bulk Purchasing (spring 2018)
- Share, Swap, Loan & Save! (fall 2017)
- House to Curb: Setting yourself up for recycling success (summer 2017)
- What happens to my recyclables? (fall 2016)
- Recycling opportunities in the bathroom (summer 2016)
- Do-it-yourself green cleaning (spring 2016)
- Simple steps to reduce waste & save energy (summer 2015)
- What are your neighbors up to? (spring 2015)
- E-waste disposal in the Corvallis area (winter 2015)
- Low waste ideas for the holidays (fall 2014)
- Pharmaceutical disposal in Corvallis (summer 2014)
- Common contamination at the curb (spring 2014)
- Household hazardous waste guide (2013)
- How to reduce plastic waste (fall 2013)