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The Green Team’s Clean Neighborhood initiative focuses on helping residents understand how to reduce the amount of waste they generate, how to dispose of waste properly, and to promote clean streets and alleys. Green Team members will provide recycling and composting education, organize Alley Clean-Up events, and promote street sweeping through a creative yard signs campaign.
Green Team Clean Neighborhood Team Leads: Yvonne Salfinger, Mario Riveria, Becky Coughlin, Nicole Ilderton
Proposed Projects:
Denver Recycling Bin
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle aims to increase the number of residences participating in Denver’s recycle and compost programs and to educate residents on proper disposal of materials like batteries, CFL bulbs and other hazardous wastes. CPNGT will work with the City of Denver to determine the number of homes currently participating in recycling programs, and develop outreach to increase these numbers. We will also offer home-composting workshops. A Battery Round-up program will work with local businesses and schools (e.g. Teller Elementary School and their Terracycle project) to provide collection points throughout the neighborhood for household batteries. The project will have designated locations and drop-off days. A “how-to” for disposal of other materials (e.g., paint, household chemicals, prescriptions, etc.) will be developed and posted on the CPN website and published in the Green e-newsletter.
Clean Streets is a project that will build on existing programs such as CPN’s Alley Cleanup Day and City street-sweeping. The aim of the project is to increase participation in Alley Cleanup throughout the neighborhood by increasing awareness of this event, recruiting block captains, and providing information about where to dispose of various items. This project also aims to improve the effectiveness of the street-sweeping program through a creative yard signs campaign that reminds residents to move cars off the street on street-sweeping days and explains the impact of street-sweeping on keeping our waterways clean.
Future Project: Marking storm drains to reduce contamination from waste and dumping.
If you have questions about these projects or would like to know how to get involved, please contact Yvonne Salfinger at yhale@aol.com or sustainability@congressparkneighbors.org
