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RECYCLING EDUCATION

OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN

ESCAMBIA COUNTY!

Dee Dee Green

Recycling & Education Outreach Coordinator

Escambia County (Pensacola Florida)

Recycle Florida Today Summer Conference

2014

• The biggest thing for me when planning a program

is can I do this by myself?

• If not… is this a program that I can get help with?

• The answer is usually.. We can give you some

support… but you are it and do it as cheap as you

can!

• So… I want to go over our most successful

programs.. How they came to be and where they

are going and show that you do not need lots of

money or staff to have a fun and successful

outreach program.

When on a limited budget and staff it is

important to find the right program and right

audience to get the biggest bang for your

buck!

Recycled Fashion Trashion Show

Dump Dash 5K & Trash-A-Thon

Dump Your Kid at the

Perdido Landfill for the

Day! (Summer and

Christmas Camps)

Special Events

The Funky Bike Fest!

Yes! A 5K at the landfill!

We just completed our third year and it is starting to

become a very popular run!

The 5K is a fundraiser. $5 from each entry goes to

the United Way of Escambia County. The remaining

money goes into the Environmental Education Fund!

Trash-A-Thon

Dump Your Kid at the

Perdido Landfill for the Day!

In an effort to find new and exciting ways of

reaching our youth, the Escambia County

Recycling Summer Camp was created in the

summer of 2009.

Recycling Summer Camp is a one-day

excursion to the County’s Perdido Landfill

where kids participate in fun-filled activities

designed to teach the importance of earth

friendly waste diversion.

Recycling Summer Camp is a free program

offered to area youth ages 5-10.

Activities

I plan the camp each day by putting up a schedule. Some

days are different . They change according to the weather,

materials and moods of the kids.

9:00 Registration & Introduction

9:30 HHW & Landfill Enviroscape

10:00 Whimsical Garden & paint

project

10:30 Snack. Luscious Layered

Landfill

11:00 Pictures with Front Loaders

and Dump Trucks

11:30 Nature walk at Perdido

Riverwalk

12:00 Lunch

12:45 Tour Perdido Landfill

2:15 Recycling games inside and

teach garbage mans

handshake

3:00 Go Home! (by this time…. My

favorite part!

Recycling Christmas Workshop

• In 2010 as an expansion of the

Recycling Day Camp we

started a Christmas Camp.

• We do more recycled crafts

and origami boxes.

• I have two large boxes of

scrap paper.. One with

Christmas cards and paper the

other with all other scrape

paper, old recycling posters

etc.

Community Involvement!

Dee Dee Green

Escambia County

ddgreen@myescambia.com

850-937-2159 office

850-554-2280 cell