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Team up with your neighbors to reduce waste through increased recycling and composting and win a $50,000 "Main Street Makeover!"
Waste Management's Think Green Recycling Challenge encourages Seattle communities to reduce their overall waste by decreasing garbage and increasing their efforts to recycle and compost. The one that reduces the most waste will win a $50,000 grant to give their community a "Main Street Makeover!"
How the Think Green Recycling Challenge Works
Every Seattle community in Waste Management's collection area is eligible to participate in this competition, starting now through March 2012. The collection area that reduces the most waste during this time period, year over year, will be rewarded with the Main Street Makeover grant. Grant money will be spent on improvement projects within the winning community - which may include:
- Bike racks
- Public place recycling containers
- Hanging flower baskets
- Park benches
- And more!
Click here to see what area you are in.
Each community/collection area is represented by the following partner organizations:
What Can I do to Help My Community Win?
It's simple. Look for ways to reduce the amount of material that you need to dispose of each day. Eliminating waste from your everyday life.
For starters, use these top 5 tips for reducing waste.
Congratulations Friday South!
For six months, Waste Management monitored and recorded the tonnage of waste, recyclables, and compostables generated in each area. Below is our final data on the change in diversion (material kept out of a landfill) throughout the campaign, which ran from 10/3/11 to 3/30/12 compared to the same timeframe the year prior. Thank you to all who made this a lively competition!
Community members living in the Rainier Beach neighborhood may suggest project ideas and locations for a Main Street Makeover by sending a Project Submission Form to the Rainier Beach Community Club Board (RBCC) by June 30.
Grant Submission Guidelines
What is a diversion rate?
The diversion rate is a measure of the recyclables and compostables that are kept out of the landfill. The winning neighborhood will be determined by the highest diversion rate, which increases as recycling and composting increase and garbage decreases. This formula also rewards waste reduction. Each month, we will post the most recent graph that accounts for data from 10/3/2011 through the end of the most recent month, compared to the same period the previous year.
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