What challenge inspired this recipe?
In the past years, the Europeers Austria have organized at least one waste-collection meetup per year. The Europeers organized the events and invited local youngsters as well as the international ESC volunteers to participate. In this way, the events were a way of locals connecting with the international volunteers while doing something good for the environment together. After the clean-up work, the group usually still or enjoyed a picknick together in the area that they cleaned up, or went for a drink together afterwards.
Ingredients :
- Resources for planning and implementation
- Tools for waste collection: trash bags, trash pick up sticks/tools, and maybe reflective vests for all participants
- Budget to provide the waste collection tools and maybe some snacks and drinks
- Camera/Phone to take pictures of the event
Step by step guide
- Plan a date and location for the waste collection event
- Promote the event
- Organize tools for waste collection: trash bags, trash pick up sticks/tools, and maybe reflective vests for all participants
- If budget available: provide some drinks and snacks for the participants (also as a thank you, and/or to have together after the work is done)
- Implement event, take pictures during the event
- Share pictures with context info on social media to promote, spread awareness, and multiply impact
Examples:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsWMLTXIi6w/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs0ga2-N_M2/?img_index=1
https://youth.europa.eu/stories/youth-week-2021-europeers-austria-trash-collection-event_nl#!
Important to highlight!This event can be used as an example to inspire volunteers to start similar sustainability initiatives themselves. |
Before you start cooking, keep in mind…
Funding is crucial: if no budget is available, the material could not be provided for free to the participants.
