RE: [greenyes] promoting good environmental practice on a shoestr ing budget

[Nicky Scott <NScott@no.address>]

How about home composting doctors project?
You use existing keen composters who in return for training up networking
events - maybe computer eqpt to network with - they can do so many hours of
volunteer work advising one to one on composting, staffing compost displays
at garden centres and so on - of course it's even better to get paid but its
a start - you can have a paid co-ordinator who can help to 'match fund' some
money from other sources - since the compostable fraction in the UK is about
30 35 % of waste and paper and card is another third - and you can compost
paper and card that is not flat and clean etc and home composting is waste
minimisation - it hits lots of good points!!

Nicky Scott
Chair Community Composting Network UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Deborah Rubin Fields [SMTP:write_debbie@no.address]
> Sent:	18 March 2004 07:23
> To:	greenyes@no.address
> Subject:	[greenyes] promoting good environmental practice on a
> shoestring budget
> 
> March 18, 2004
> 
> Dear Friends-
> I am asking you to indulge me in answering the following question:
> If you were offered a very tiny municipal grant, what community 
> environmental project(s) would you  put into practice that would be of the
> 
> greatest short term and long term value?
> 
> Background to question:
> My financially strapped city is offering neighborhood councils a very
> small 
> amount of money to initiate an unspecified community project.  As a 
> neighborhood volunteer, I personally do not want to see the money spent on
> 
> just painting park benches (something that our taxes should cover anyway).
> In our community, we have limited recycling.  That is to say, we have PET
> 1 
> 1/2 liter plastic bottle recycling and paper recycling only.  Soon we will
> 
> be starting an experimental neighborhood composting project (from another 
> municipal grant).  In addition, by federal law, people can redeem 
> (redemption labelled) cans, glass and 1/2 liter PET bottles at the 
> groceries.
> Without nearby recycling centers, the city picks up the vast majority of 
> household waste and hauls it to a municipal landfill.
> Given that background, what practical project would you propose?  
> Regretfully, I have to come up with suggestions by Tuesday, March 23rd.
> I thank all of you for your consideration and look forward to hearing from
> 
> you.
> Debbie Rubin Fields
> write_debbie@no.address
> 
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