Volunteer at IUCN's 2016 World Conservation Congress |
The efforts are exemplary yet the human factor was so discouraging. At the World Conservation Congress the event managers found that two days into the program they had to provide volunteers to help conference goers be more successful in sorting - and these were all primarily environmental supporters! Then, in an excruciating discovery, a bureaucratic glitch was allowed to prevent the composting intended to make the Congress a Zero Waste event.
GreenBuild 2016 |
There are similar reports out of the 2016 annual conference for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums!
Volunteer helpers at sorting stations is a proven success mechanism if we take advantage of it. Come on gang - let's help us help ourselves!
Ah, Sarah, you've hit a real sore spot for me. So many conferences I attend do not provide attendees with the ability to recycle - not even all the piles of paper they give us in our registration packet! I would love to see recycling bins as part of the RFPs that museum associations send out - or as something that the local arrangements committee ensures. It's just so easy to do!
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