An innovative environmental awareness event at IT Sligo next month is aiming is helping green-thinking students and the general public to recycle more unwanted household items than ever before.
A group of the Institute’s Bachelor of Business in Marketing Students is organising an event entitled, ‘Don’t Bin IT Bring IT’ taking place on campus in the Hume Hall on November 14th between 12-5pm.
The aim of the event is to highlight and create awareness for environmental degradation and for Clean Coasts, which is an Irish organisation that is working to protect Ireland’s beaches, seas and marine life with all proceeds on the day going to this cause.
This aim of the event is to create awareness about consumerism in society and how this hurts our environment. The day will include a car boot sale, flea market & a number of recycling workshops. A very social fun day is guaranteed with a college DJ, food & prizes to be won.
There will be three collection days on campus where all your old items can be dropped off for inclusion and sold on the day.
The collection days are: Monday October 24th, , Monday November 7th and Wednesday November 9th, on the main concourse at IT Sligo. Your donations are greatly appreciated. Categories include Books, Clothes, Toys, and Shoes.
Electrical products will not be accepted. So do get cleaning out your homes & garden sheds. Plastic bottles are currently being collected around the campus for the workshops where students will learn and be creative making useful products from these on the day.
The students are taking the subject non-profit marketing, which is an important addition to the curriculum as people are becoming more socially responsible and ethically minded in their everyday lives. In the ever more competitive world even non-profit organisations have to compete with one another for funding. It also gives students hands on experience in organising events and gives them an insight into how charities are run.
Representatives from Clean Coasts have been invited to the event and there will be information regarding how one can get involved in regular beach cleans and meet ups all-round the North West.
For more information about Clean Coasts, visit www.cleancoasts.org. The Don’t Bin IT Bring IT event is also on social medial platforms.