Spokane Zero Waste EXPO Low-Impact Waste Plan volunteers needed

Food, games, prizes, and fanfare are all part of a fun community celebration, unfortunately so is waste. No one wants to see our City, River and Parks littered with celebration refuse.

In honor of Expo ‘74, the first ever Environmentally Themed World’s Fair, Spokane Zero Waste (SZW) has developed a program to reduce waste both upstream and downstream.

To implement this program we need volunteers to serve as Waste Ambassadors during Opening Ceremonies, Bloomsday and other iconic Spokane events. Waste Ambassadors will receive training and help vendors and celebrants properly dispose of waste in 3 categories: recycling, compost and landfill.

 

• Waste Ambassadors will work in groups of 2-3 and be joined by a SZW board member or Spokane Solid Waste representative.

● Shifts will range from 3-5 hours
● We encourage businesses, organizations, clubs, and families to fill a shift as a day of community service.

Help us reach our goal of sending more material to recycling and compost than to landfill and set a new bar of sustainability in Spokane.

Learn more about this volunteer opportunity and be part of a new, low-waste chapter of Spokane history.

Register to be a Waste Ambassador
For questions contact: info@spokanezerowaste.org

 

What: A waste reduction plan for Expo event coordinators, vendors and the public focused on Riverfront Park and available to any business, organization or group hosting an Expo related event.

Why: Reducing waste, collecting clean recyclables and composting food waste are the best, most visible ways for Spokane to demonstrate its commitment to its legacy as the first city to ever host an environmentally themed World’s Fair.

Three-stream collection (compost, recycling & landfill) supports a systems change that will result in reducing environmental impacts long-term while building economic opportunity.

How:
Using compostable food service ware, providing and encouraging use of water refill stations and having staffed, 3-stream waste stations.

Volunteers will be trained as Waste Ambassadors (WA). WA’s will help the public and vendors properly sort recyclables, compost and landfill materials.