Sierra Club with education, promotion of green bin
Posted Mar 5, 2010 By EMC News
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Tweet ThisThe Sierra Club of Canada is looking for volunteers to take on a role in environmental leadership, give a 'bin talk" presentation to small groups across the city.
The collection of food scraps is the next logical step in waste diversion efforts and a critical step in efforts to mitigate climate change.
Food scraps buried in a landfill produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas now believed to be 70-1000 times more potent, by volume, than carbon dioxide.
As such, generating and maintaining public participation in Ottawa's new green bin program is of the utmost importance.
Sierra Club Canada will be recruiting, training, deploying and motivating volunteers in Ottawa to give presentations at various locations including schools, their places of work and worship and the many clubs and organizations to which they belong.
Volunteers will be trained to give five to ten minute presentations to Ottawa residents in their community, place of work, school, or other public meeting places.
High school students can earn community service hours and educate their fellow students, teachers, and the broader community at large on the benefits and ease of the green bin.
Upon recruitment, each volunteer will receive online training from in both the content and style of the presentation that has been developed by Sierra Club Canada.
Further, each volunteer will receive various forms of the presentation to assist the with keeping them on track and on message, and provide to audience members both an audio and visual means of learning the material.
The aim is make each 'bin talk' as customizable as possible to the needs of the individual presenter.
To sign up or to learn more, contact the Sierra Club by phone at 613-241-4611 ext. 235 or by email at wastediversion@sierraclub.ca
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