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Help Create a Greener Future

Registration is open for applicants for 2010 training program!

Download your Volunteer Application by clicking here.

Join your fellow community members in making a difference in Clark County, become a Master Composter Recycler!

Master Composter/Recycler Volunteer training provides community members with the basic tools and knowledge to share sustainability techniques that reduce household waste, lessen greenhouse gasses, and create healthy soils.

Master Composter/Recyclers attend a ten-session evening course that explores topics such as: backyard composting, vermicomposting, recycling and waste reduction, greener consumer choices, green-building, interpretive techniques and more. They then share what they have learned about waste reduction, composting and recycling with the Clark County Community.

The next course begins the first week of February 2010 and is now accepting applications.Training will occur Thursday evenings, Feb. 4 - April 1, from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. There will be a Saturday hot compost pile building activity and a Saturday field trip. Evening training sessions will be held at Clark County's 78th St. Conference Center in Vancouver.

Sharing, Educating, Inspiring

Master Composter/Recyclers (MCR) Volunteers "payback" their training by helping to represent the MCR Program at community events such as fairs, celebrations and farmer's markets; help to host workshops and lectures; assist with developing educational resources; or perhaps grow redworms for workshops, maintain composting demonstration sites; or help with administrative tasks.

In return for the free training, volunteers commit to provide 30 hours of payback within a year after the training is complete. Volunteer training will begin Feb.4, 2010 and will meet weekly until April 1. "Be the change," apply to be a Master Composter Recycler now!