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27.10.2009 15:00
What are Green Guides?
The extended waste sorting system in Oslo got its first pilot area October 1st, 2009. Today over 20.000 of Oslo’s inhabitants have begun sorting plastics and organic waste. By end 2011, all of Oslo will be included in this system. For this purpose, Renovasjonsetaten (The Waste Management Department) and Grønn Hverdag (Green Living) have developed Project Green Guide. Together, we wish to offer www.gronnguide.no to all of Oslo’s citizens, including the ones that are not in the extended waste sorting system as of yet. The web page contains information about the waste sorting programme in Oslo and an internet based course giving you the qualifications to be a Green Guide. Read more about being a Green Guide below.
What does a Green Guide do?
After completing and passing the course, register as a Green Guide. The course contains useful information as well as questions. The knowledge you acquire through this course is what you will be passing on to others as a Green Guide. How you decide to do this is up to you. The primary task of a Green Guide is to be available. You can do this by posting information in the hallways or on the intranet of your housing cooperative, sending emails to friends and colleagues, spreading the word about the Green Guide courses, having a stand in your local or one of the pilot areas, or by being active on the gronnguide.no forum.
Anyone can be a Green Guide in Oslo
By 2012, all of Oslo will be included in the extended waste sorting system. Thus, all the city’s inhabitants need practical information, and we expect a lot of questions, both from within the pilot areas and outside. Through active feedback, the Green guides will give Renovasjonsetaten a lot of useful information. This means that you directly impact this system in a positive way, making it the best that it can be. In addition a Green Guide influences a lot of people. Together we can make waste sorting a part of our everyday lives and make Oslo a greener city!
Multilingual Green Guides
Are you multilingual and would like to train Green Guides in your own mother tongue? Our goal is to be able to inform all of Oslo’s inhabitants of the waste sorting programme, and it is thus of outmost importance to be able to offer courses and information in several languages. There are two ways to do this.
If you are doing this on your own initiative, you:
- Guide your friends and acquaintances through the course and registration at gronnguide.no
- Continue to have contact with your Guides in case of new and important information on the waste sorting programme
If you do not have access to the internet you can send us the personal details of all the ones that have sat through your course, and we will register them for you.
If you want to be assigned potential Guides, you:
- Make contact at gronnguide@gronnhverdag.no
- Tell us what language(s) you are able to hold courses in
We will make contact once we have people willing to be coursed in your language.
