Environmental Champions

A voluntary action group on sustainability issues

We are working on action based initiatives around waste and recycling, housing and energy efficiency, sustainable travel, fairtrade, environmental tasks including river clean up’s, green police and many more exciting ideas.

This project is a partnership between www.cardiffdigs.co.uk, SVC and Keep Cardiff Tidy with the aim of making Cardiff a cleaner, greener, safer, more optimistic place filled with civic pride. The projects will work in partnership with the wider community and various supporting organisations.

Requirements:
Flexible days and times see below for our current projects.
Coordinators: Chris Davies and Alec Care with Lucy Prisk and Kieran McCann as support

Interested?

Sign up through the SVC Office on the 3rd floor of the Students’ Union
Tel: (029) 2078 1510 / 1494
Email: svc@cardiff.ac.uk
Web: www.svcardiff.org

Community members/non-students sign up to become a city environmental champion by contacting lprisk (@) cardiff.gov.uk or cardiffdigs (@) gmail.com

Past Projects:

Hallow-Clean - A spook-tacular litter pick

Get It Out for Cardiff 2011 campaign

Environmental Champions come knocking!

We have a few events forthcoming that we really need your help with:

Join the Environmental Champions

On the 24th January the Environmental Champions will be pounding the streets to ensure that students returning from their holidays are presenting their waste correctly and that any accumulations of waste are dealt with before they become a nuisance.

The team will also be sending out safety advice alongside the Student Police Initiative http://www.cardiffdigs.co.uk/lockithideitkeepit.htm related to ensuring that all residents do not make it obvious how generous Santa has been by leaving packaging of expensive presents on display or in/next to bins as burglars know the packaging relates to items worth stealing. The advice is to rip boxes/packaging in such a way that it is not obvious what was contained in it and then recycle.

The champions are always keen to attract any more willing volunteers and anyone is welcome to come along to assist in this educational drive at the start of term.

Please meet:

Tuesday 24th January
4.30pm
3rd Floor Cardiff Students Union, Park Place

We will continue working on recycling along with other sustainability. For more information please visit:

http://www.cardiffdigs.co.uk/waste.htm

Set up by www.cardiffdigs.co.uk, Student Volunteering Cardiff (SVC) and Keep Cardiff Tidy the scheme is a voluntary action group working on sustainability issues. The society is working on a range of action based initiatives around sustainability: http://www.cardiffdigs.co.uk/environmentalchampions.htm