Green Guide Program
We are proud to offer front of house composting and recycling bins in our main dining locations. Though we work hard to educate the campus community on how to properly divert waste, we still have high contamination rates in our bins. Our Green Guides help to decrease these rates and promote more thoughtful waste disposal.
What are Green Guides?
Green Guides are student volunteers that help people sort their waste between compost, recycling, and landfill in Lenoir Mainstreet. This program originally began as a part of Eat Sort Win, our award-winning composting and recycling education campaign where you have the chance win UNC-Duke basketball tickets!
We now hold Green Guide shifts throughout the academic year in an effort to reduce our contamination rates in front-of-house recycling and compost bins!
Why
Contaminants are items that are sorted into the wrong bin; they can ruin a collection of recyclables, shut down recycling equipment, or pollute cropland by contaminating compost with plastics, chemicals, and other waste. By educating the campus on proper waste sorting, Green Guides help to reduce contamination in our waste streams!
How to Join
Sign up here to be added to our volunteer listserv. We will send out a monthly email with information on upcoming shifts and how to sign up. Green Guides receive a residential meal voucher for each shift they work, which can be used at Chase or Top of Lenoir!