Students: Do you have a free lunch hour any day of the week from now until November 17? Sign up to be a Green Guide for Carolina Dining Services!
As a Green Guide, you’ll be stationed at a Carolina Dining Service location beside the compost, recycling and landfill bins. As students walk by, you’ll help sort their trash into the appropriate bins. The push until November 17 is part of Carolina Dining Services’ Eat Sort Win campaign, but volunteers are needed throughout the years.
Sustainability Manager Victoria Hill keeps the boards behind these three bins updated to keep students informed about how to sort trash. But that doesn’t mean the bins beneath aren’t contaminated. Contaminants are items sorted into the wrong bin. When this happens, it can ruin a collection of recyclables, shut down recycling equipment or pollute cropland via contaminated compost.
If you’d like to join this effort to reduce contamination, fill out the form on Carolina Dining Services’ website. After signing up, you’ll receive emails about upcoming volunteering times and locations. Volunteers receive a t-shirt and meal voucher for Chase/Top of Lenoir for giving their time.
About Eat Sort Win
Carolina Dining Services announced its first Eat, Sort, Win campaign in fall 2018. The program’s aims to eliminate confusion about what goes in the compost, recycling and landfill bins at Carolina Dining Service locations. The National Association of College and University Food Services recognized Carolina Dining Services, which is run by the University’s dining contractor Aramark, with the 2019 Silver Award in Sustainability for Education and Outreach.