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Eeyores Trash and Recycling
Eeyore’s needs volunteers for Trash/Recycling throughout the day, but primarily in the afternoon and into the evening.
Trash/Recycling home base is located under a tent on the eastern side of the park, close to t-shirts. Ask for Lori or Daniel this year when checking in for your shirt and wristband. We will give you a demonstration on how to install a bag.
Install a bag: Under the inner bar, over the outer bar, pull it over the points like little ears!
Shifts are mostly 2 hours long. We aim for about 50 volunteers, would like 60. We like to have at least 10 per shift. Volunteers are primarily unsupervised and free to move around the party.
First shift 9-11 am for Setup:
Work with Setup crew to distribute trash and recycling frames throughout the park in pairs of one blue frame and one black frame. The blue frames are for recycling and use a clear bag. The black frames are for landfill trash and use a black bag. Insert bag, and put three extra bags across the pivot point for later use. Do not tie the extra bags on, just lay them on. Distribute frame pairs throughout the park, at all security points (bridge, north path, main entrance), some up the hill, in the volunteer area, and place additional black frames around the food areas.
No shifts during the lull from 11 am to 2 pm – we are waiting for people to fill up the trash frames.
Second shift: 2 to 4: Trash Stroll! Toilet Paper Restock! Possibly bag hauling!
Third shift: 4 to 6: Trash Stroll! Toilet Paper Restock! Possibly bag hauling!
Trash Stroll: walk through the park, preferably in pairs. See a full bag? Release the bag, pull it out from below, tie it off, move it to the side, install an empty bag. Then move on! You can do this with a tasty beverage in one hand.
Toilet Paper Restock: Grab the Toilet Paper Pole, stack it full of toilet paper rolls, then head to the PortaPotties. Have celebrants grab a roll before they go in. No need for you to check the Portos yourself.
Possibly Bag Hauling: If we have enough younger physically fit people on a shift, we might ask some to haul bags to the gravel path and use a cart to haul them to trash and recycling containers in the parking lot, but ONLY if they want to. Why physically fit? It is very hard to throw full bags of trash 10 ft in the air to deposit in the dumpsters. This job is helpful but not mandatory.
Fourth shift: 6 to 8:30, includes teardown
Fourth (and final) shift does the Trash Stroll until just before dusk when celebrants are asked to leave. Then, start undoing all the bags, putting the frames in stacks near the gravel paths. Either we or the Teardown crew grab a cart and start picking up the frames and hauling them to the trailers.
Please use the form below to sign up for Recycling and Trash shifts this year: