It is with great pleasure to announce that the Powell River Regional District is taking another step towards creating a more sustainble community with the induction of a Waste Management Eduction Program. Coco Hess and Abby McLennan, through BHC Consulting, have been awarded the contract and are happy to declare that they will be planting the seed to inaugurate a zero waste initiative. Through working with the Regional District and local community, they aspire to be instrumental players in introducing and advancing solid waste management planning in our community. The first phase of this program is to create an educational plan which will then lead to the delivery of the proposed plan in phase two, scheduled to kick-off later this spring.

The proposed education campaign will focus on multiple targets, via various mediums and will be visual, distinctive, and fun for the community to get behind. Promotion of waste reduction and reuse will be the primary targets. Waste reduction (or prevention) is the preferred approach to waste management because waste that never gets created doesn't have waste management costs!

Some ideas for our plan so far include:

* The creation of a well maintained waste management education website
* A local Compost Education Centre
* A waste management Resource Guide

Joining Abby and Coco in this endeavor are three rats, who together have formed the Let's Talk Trash Team. This team will be spearheaded by the rats who love to talk trash and who's mission is to develop and deliver sustainable waste management strategies to lead us down the road to zero waste.

Taking part in this mission to reduce the waste that you generate is a long, hard, lifelong effort. Join the team today by starting to re-thinking your purchasing decisions. Can you reduce or reuse items that would otherwise be destined to the landfill by making an alternative choice? Read more »