Sign Up Now To Be on a Sustainable Neighborhood Team

 

If your group endorsed or supports the proposal to reduce Amherst waste by 40% (by changing to a competitive town contract that includes universal curbside compostable materials pick up, a Pay As You Throw fee structure and local composting), or if you are an individual supporter, please share this with your group and networks and encourage sign ups. We need a robust showing to help support Town Council adoption of the program. 

 

Just imagine our neighborhoods organized for sustainability and climate action! What a thought!

 

Help grow a groundswell of support for sustainability in Amherst!

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Work neighbor to neighbor for a livable planet!

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Zero Waste Amherst (ZWA) is organizing Sustainable Neighborhood Teams to help get the word out to residents and businesses about new sustainability initiatives and opportunities, including new Town programs. ZWA especially hopes to work with the Town to implement a proposal currently being considered that would reduce our waste by at least 40%. It would do so by changing to a town contract with a single hauler, obtained through competitive bids, which would provide universal curbside compostable materials pick up, a Pay As You Throw fee structure, and local composting! If adopted, it would start in January of 2024. We expect the outreach about this program to excite and energize residents and to help the town save money on education and outreach efforts.

If you are willing, please provide your information on this form. Thanks!

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Sustainable Neighborhood Team responsibilities for this project would include:

Distributing Town and Zero Waste Amherst educational materials to your neighbors, door to door, and speaking with them to make sure they understand:

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•        Participation in the newly adopted curbside compost pick up program

•        What goes in the compost bin, and what does not

•        How they will be billed

 

We believe you won't be called on to do the outreach until spring or summer of 2023, but we need a commitment now to show the Town Council. Neighborhood outreach would need to occur within a certain time frame, but you would have a lot of flexibility within those limits.

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Volunteer work will be strictly non-partisan and limited to education and outreach for new programs promoting town wide sustainability.

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We hope to have a good cadre of volunteers to make sure it gets off to a good start and saves the town money. It is important that we are able to reach all residents in town. The more volunteers we have, the smaller the ground each has to cover so please spread the word!

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An example is the Orchard Valley neighborhood. Orchard Valley has approximately 270 households and we hope to have 3 or 4 volunteers to share the work of visiting them at least once a year to promote sustainability initiatives in town.

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If you are willing, please provide your information on this form. Thanks!