RCE Tantramar-2012

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Submitted by RCEeaphillips on Thu, 2012-08-16 00:00
1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Emily Phillips
Organizational Affiliation : 
Mount Allison University Master's student, RCE Tantramar Coordinator
Role in the project: 
Coordinator and Head Recycling Voluntee
E-Mail Address(es): 
eaphillips@mta.ca
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
SappyFest Goes Green!
2. Project Description: 
SappyFest is a local music festival that takes place for 3 days every summer in Sackville, NB. In the Tantramar Region, the recycling system is a Wet/Dry system, where wet garbage (predominantly compost) is sorted in green bags and dry garbage (predominantly recycling) is sorted in blue bags. SappyFest has always disposed of its garbage in dumpsters that go straight to the landfill. This year, RCE Tantramar worked with SappyFest, Sackville Public Works, and Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation to make sure all waste generated by the festival was properly sorted and recycled.
3. Project Status: 
Finished
4. Key Words
Key Words: 
Health
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Awareness building
Networking and partnership development
6. Expected outcomes:: 
•Reduce the amount of waste going to the landfill from SappyFest.
•Educate residents of the Tantramar area, as well as out-of-town festival-goers about the recycling system in Tantramar.
•Bring experts (from Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation) to residents in order to dispel misinformation and confusion about the wet/dry system.
•Raise awareness of recycling and ceate momentum for increased ecycling in the Tantramar region at other municipal events.
•Establish a benchmark for SappyFest waste generation so that monitoring can occur each year.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
06/2012 – 08/2012
3. Project Leadership & Vision
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
4
b. Transactional: 
3
c. Transformational: 
3
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
•Reduced the amount of waste going to the landfill from SappyFest.
•Educated residents of the Tantramar area, as well as out-of-town festival-goers about the recycling system in Tantramar.
•Brought experts (from Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation) to residents in order to dispel misinformation and confusion about the wet/dry system.
•Raised awareness of recycling and ceated momentum for increased ecycling in the Tantramar region at other municipal events.
13.Core Partners: 
Paul Henderson (SappyFest); George Woodburn (Sackville Public Works); Mary ??? (Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation)
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
2
b. Knowledge network: 
5
c. Innovation network: 
3
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
•RCE Tantramar – Coordination, administration, on-the-ground emptying of bins during festival, leadership of volunteers;
•SappyFest – volunteer organization, supplied venue and storage for materials, placed orders for garbage bins and cigarette butt dispensors;
•Sackville Public Works – ordered and supplied dumpsters, contracted transport of waste from Sackville to recycling facility;
•Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation – supplied trash bags and signage, manned information booth, educated public.
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
3
b. Consultation participation: 
4
c. Decision influencing participation : 
3
7. Education & Learning
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
1
b. Discussion: 
1
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
8
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
Not applicable.
Type: 
Project Reports
Region: 
Americas
Community: 
SCP,Livelihood and Well-being
Issue: 
Waste Management
Country: 
Canada