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This year, 27 students completed their Community Recycling Ambassador training during the spring session. Welcome to the CRA community!
 Spring CRA class graduates
2024 summer session update
Due to staff constraints, we will not be holding a second round of CRA training this year. Tours and continuing education events, however, will take place as planned later in the year. Stay tuned for more details!
We are offering new nametags to reflect the updated program name of Community Recycling Ambassadors. To get your new or replacement nametag, please complete the nametag request form.
Nametags will be mailed throughout the year, with the last date to request a new nametag being August 31, 2024.
Table with Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling
Saturday, April 20 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at multiple locations
Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling is looking for CRA volunteers to help staff educational tables at Park and Recreation Board Earth Day cleanups at various parks around Minneapolis. Tabling materials will be provided.
Several neighborhood groups have requested educational tables at their cleanup events including:
- Bethune Park
- Elliot Park
- Lake of the Isles East
- Lynnhurst Park
- Pearl Park
Contact Angiulo Damiani at Angiulo.Damiani@minneapolismn.gov or 612-673-3318 if you’re interested.
Table at the Eden Prairie Eco Expo
Saturday, April 20 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (multiple shifts)
Eden Prairie Center, 8251 Flying Cloud Drive, Eden Prairie
Hennepin County is looking for volunteers to staff an education table at the Eden Prairie Eco Expo on Earth Day. Shifts will run 9 a.m. to noon, noon to 3 p.m., and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tablecloth and materials will be provided. Email kira.berglund@hennepin.us to get more info and sign up!
Support a virtual backyard composting workshop
Tuesday, April 30 from 7 to 8 p.m.
Monday, May 6 from noon to 1 p.m.
Hennepin County is looking for volunteers to help support two upcoming virtual backyard composting workshops. One volunteer is needed per workshop. Volunteers help staff manage meeting participants, monitor the chat, and take notes if needed. If you are interested, contact kira.berglund@hennepin.us.
Volunteer at the Edina Community Clothing Swap
Thursday, May 9 from 4 to 7 p.m.
Braemar Arena Backyard Rink, 7501 Ikola Way, Edina
The City of Edina is hosting its annual Community Clothing Swap in May. Many volunteers are needed to make this event a success! Duties include helping with setup, accepting donations, weighing bags, counting attendance, and cleaning up. Complete the online form to sign up for a shift.
Table at Family Night at Champlin Brooklyn Park Academy
Thursday, May 16 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Champlin Brooklyn Park Academy, 6100 109th Avenue North, Champlin
Join Hennepin County staff to provide information about recycling and composting at Champlin Brooklyn Park Academy's Family Specialty Night! Champlin Brooklyn Park Academy is a magnet school that specializes in math and environmental science. The school places an emphasis on sustainability, recycling, and environmental awareness. If you are interested, contact kira.berglund@hennepin.us
 The first Earth Day in 1970 mobilized millions of Americans to demand action and launch the modern environmental movement. Since then, Earth Day has evolved into the largest civic event on the planet, activating billions of people each year to care for the environment and take action for a brighter future.
Achieving our zero-waste and climate-action goals will require a lot of different people putting their interests, skills, talents, and connections to work in a lot of different areas. This year for Earth Day, the county is sharing what we are doing and how everyone can get involved in key areas: cleaning up and protecting lakes, rivers, and streams, achieving a zero-waste future, planting and caring for trees, learning and connecting in our communities, conserving energy and switching to renewable energy, and getting around sustainably.
Learn what we are doing and how you can be part of the solution to find an opportunity that works for you! Explore upcoming events and cleanups on our Earth Day and Arbor Day events map.
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In an effort to keep food out of the trash and keep cash in consumers’ pockets, Hennepin County is launching the Trash or Cash campaign to help people learn ways to save money by not wasting food.
The first phase of the campaign includes:
- A new website, trashorcash.org, where residents can learn more about this issue and pick up some tricks and tips for buying the food they need and eating the food they have.
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Sign up for weekly Fridge Check Friday emails, which will include tips and reminders to help people save money by wasting less food
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Fridge Check Guide that walks people through how to choose cash over trash by making simple changes to how they plan, store, and cook.
The second phase launching later this spring will include game show video segments, paid advertising, and a partnership with local chefs.
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This year, residents in several Hennepin County cities have experienced a change to their curbside organics recycling program. To help get more information out to residents, we partnered with cities to send a mailer to all households in Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Crystal, Eden Prairie, Long Lake, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, New Hope, and Rogers.
If you live or volunteer in any of these cities, keep an eye out for your mailer and review our organics recycling page to be prepared for questions when you are volunteering.
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