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Community Partnership:

NELA & the NC Cooperative

Extension Service Office

Gonzalo Miguel Pitpit

Northeast Leadership Academy

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As A County Extension Worker

Keep informed on

local, national, and

world events.

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Timeline July 29, 2011: Last Day of Internship

Sharing of Filipino/Asian Food

July 20, 2011:

Northampton Nature Trail

Granulation, Plastic Pesticide

Containers July 19, 2011: Cotton Insect Scouting School

Soybean Insect Scouting SchoolJuly 15, 2011:

VIP Camp

J.W. Faison Senior Center July 12, 2011:

Managing Weed ResistanceJuly 12, 2011:

2011 Visually Impaired People (VIP)

Camp Orientation

Grant Proposal Writing Begins

July 11, 2011:

First Day of Internship

Staff Meeting

Black Light TrapVisit with the Farmers

July 25, 2011:

Staff Meeting

Grant Proposal WritingIn Progress

July 28-29, 2011:

4-H Curriculum

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Grant Proposal: Plastic Pesticide

Container Recycling Program

US Agriculture uses nearly 40 million plastic containers each year. Most of thesecontainers go into landfills that cause Americas landfill capacity to be decreasing.

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Why

Recycle?

Excavation showing soil contamination ata disused gasworks.

Care to guess how manypounds of pesticides theNation used in 1964?How about in 1993?

National use of pesticidesgrew from about 540 million

pounds in 1964 to about1.1 billion pounds in 1993.

FACT: The effects of past and presentland-use practices may take decades tobecome apparent in ground water.

FACT: Pesticides are mostly modernchemicals. There are many hundreds ofthese compounds, and that leads us toask just how concerned we should be

about their presence in our drinkingwater.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soilcontam.JPG

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Main Goals of the Recycling Program

2. To set up acollection site to

inspect and storeproperly cleaned

containers so that they

can be granulated.

Farmers @ Northamptonduring the Cotton Insect

Scouting School on July 19,2011.

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How do we recycle plastic

pesticide containers?

They are granulated.

They are used in synthetic fibers; beverage, food andother liquid containers; thermoforming applications; andengineering resins often in combination with glass fiber.

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Grant Proposal Components

Purchase of two

40 x 8 x 8Used Cargo Containers

Purchase of two

Informational Signs

Purchase of twelve

6 x 6 x 8Posts

T $ 9,030.00 $ 600.00 $ 234.00

Total Grant Request: $ 9, 864.00

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INPUTSExisting

Resources

OUTPUTS

Activities

OUTCOMES

Short Term Intermediate Long Term(Years 1-2) (Years 3-5) (beyond Year 5)

Planning Phase

Conduct Baseline Research

Hold Meetings with Farmers, Pesticide Dealerships,

Commercial Applicators

Develop Strategic Partnerships

Enhance Community Involvement and AwarenessSchedule of Programs

Programming Phase

Develop and carry out informational

campaigns/meetings using different forms of media:

print - newsletters, news articles, brochures, and

broadcastTV, radio, videos/movies

Attend community events to promote awareness on

plastic pesticide containers recycling program

Educate children of local farmers at Northampton

County Schools and Emphasize the Importance of

Recycling in the District

Evaluation Phase

Annual Evaluation of Program Impacts

Gather/Collect Data

Analysis of Data

Prepare and Submit Annual Report to the

Department of Agriculture

Increased awareness of

the plastic pesticide

containers recycling

program of Northampton

CountyIncreased awareness of

protecting the

environment

Increased relations

between community

partners and the

district/state government

Continued awareness on

the plastic pesticide

recycling program of

Northampton County

Enhanced involvementof partners in our

communities

Increased parent

engagement in youths

academic lives

Increased community

and school relationships

with positive goals

Increased landfill

capacity

Protected

environment

Safer communitiesIncreased number of

school children

realizing the

importance of

recycling

Increased

availability of

resources on plastic

pesticide containerrecycling

Northampton County

Network including Public

Works and Solid Waste

Management

NC CooperativeExtension Staff and

Administration

Funding

Research and Evaluation

Expertise

Experience on recycling

pesticide containers

Key partners and future

funders

Farmers, Pesticide

Dealerships, CommercialApplicators

Program Logic Model

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Timeline / Process Chart