It's Happening!

Recycling at the Coos County Fair is definitely happening this year. I am so excited! I feel like this project could really make a difference. 50,000 people are estimated to attend the event over 5 days. If only half of those people buy a soda bottle, water bottle, or soda can, and only half of those people actually put it in the recycling bin: then that is still making a big difference.

I have also never coordinated a project that impacts such a wide geographic scale. I sent this press release out to 23 media outlets (6 radio stations, 6 TV stations, and 11 newspapers (including The Oregonian in Portland!)). And am anxiously awaiting some actual press coverage. I mean, who wouldn't want to write or talk about a county fair implementing a recycling program after 94 years?!The best part: "Marley Bice, an AmeriCorps volunteer through the Northwest Service Academy, is coordinating recycling for the Fair. “We hope to be able to divert the majority of single-use beverage containers from landfills, thereby reducing the negative environmental impact of this community event,” said Bice, who is serving as Watershed Outreach Organizer for the Coos Watershed Association this year."