Hello! My name is Graham and this is my green energy blog. I was inspired to start this blog when my 8-year-old son returned home from school with his science homework. The homework consisted of information and questions relating to climate change. I was shocked to discover the impact humankind was having on the planet so I decided to take action. I contacted a green energy company and asked them to conduct an assessment on my home. I then installed double-glazed windows and solar panels on my home. These measures mean I do not need to rely on carbon generated power.
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If you are organising a community clean-up project in your local area to improve the local environment, here are some tips to follow.
Arrange for those involved to chip in for a rubbish removal service for your waste collection
It's important to ensure that all of the rubbish you and the other volunteers pick up is removed from the area in a responsible manner. Whilst each of you could potentially take home one filled rubbish bag each and put it in your own household bin, this might not be practical or sanitary, as you'd need to transport the refuse you collect back to your homes in your vehicles. Instead, it would be better to suggest to the group that everyone chip in to pay for a rubbish removal service. If your group features ten or more people, the rubbish removal fee per person is likely to be very small.
This would enable you to pick up all of the rubbish in the area you'll be sprucing up, even if there are vast quantities of it, without worrying about the logistics of transporting it back to your own homes' household bins. It would also mean that you could collect any unhygienic or hazardous rubbish (like broken glass and cigarette ends) without having to worry that you'll make your own vehicles or homes unsanitary by bringing it to your own bins.
Use extra-strong rubbish bags
Most community clean-up projects focus on outdoor areas that need some TLC. If your project will take place outdoors, you should provide the volunteers with extra-strong rubbish bags. Between the start time of this project and the time at which the rubbish removal truck arrives, you'll need to keep the bags you fill in this outdoor space. If they're not strong, and they contain bits of food or food packaging, there is a chance that rats, mice or other wildlife might rip the bags open to access the food they can smell inside them.
If the bags contain items that are hazardous to wildlife (like the plastic rings on beer cans) this could lead to these wild creatures being injured in their attempt to access the edible contents. Additionally, it could result in the rubbish the volunteers painstakingly collected getting strewn around the nearby area. As such, extra-strong bags are a good investment for a project like this that will enable you to tackle the cleaning work efficiently and safely.
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