Description:
Chaoyang Community's 2019 garbage sorting initiative faced low engagement and unsorted waste issues. Green Neighbors intervened during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, fostering a deep community bond. They initiated a green community project, forming a 30-member volunteer team, reducing 2,350 jin of kitchen waste through the "Spring Mud Plan." Incentives like garbage credit cards boosted resident participation. Currently, the community recycles 30 kg monthly, maintains a 30 sqm garden, and collects 10 kg of kitchen waste, while leveraging experts for sustainable community development.

Main Problems:
1. Limited community awareness of carbon reduction goals and climate change concepts.
2. Low resident participation rates in carbon reduction actions.
3. Lack of data and incentives for residents to engage in carbon reduction.
4. Absence of a systematic approach to constructing and promoting a "waste-free community."
5. Need for continuous improvement in engaging younger residents in waste-free community initiatives.
6. Lack of demonstration models for "waste-free family" and "waste-free community."
7. Unreasonable layout of the community garbage classification hardware system.
8. Unsupervised and unguided garbage dumping, hindering effective classification.
9. Residents' lack of confidence in proper garbage classification.
10. Serious mixed loading during garbage transportation.
11. Absence of fixed time points for classified promotion measures.
12. Lack of a stable recycling channel for recyclables.
13. Inactive resident engagement, community ideas without effective implementation, and unsustained enthusiasm among community volunteers.
14. Challenges in solving garbage classification issues, including inadequate support for the entire classification process and a lack of motivation for continuous behavior change

Solutions:
1. Mode exploration: cultivation of zero waste family and zero waste demonstration building; exploration of closed-loop mode of recyclables; compost base construction; application of modern Internet technology application: calculate and record household carbon footprint and carbon sink in the form of small program; meanwhile, public time bank;
2. Reference of successful experience: the establishment of community kitchen waste composting base;
3. Five social linkage: fully integrate and mobilize the co-construction units;
4. Application of professional social worker skills: community mobilization, volunteer group cultivation, community work methods, etc.;
5. Community mobilization: to carry out interactive community publicity activities, improve the ability of community environmental protection volunteers, and cultivate female LingDong community representatives.

Anticipated results/outcomes:
1. Form a female zero-waste volunteer team, transforming stay-at-home moms into active community participants, enhancing family and social recognition.
2. Promote family carbon sink planting, creating zero-waste households and demonstration buildings. Increased green elements, reduced waste, and recorded carbon footprints improve community engagement and responsibility.
3. Establish a closed loop for community recyclables, reducing monthly garbage by 1500 kg. The project instills recycling habits, improves community health, and strengthens resident collaboration.
4. Construct a community composting base, treating leaves locally, reducing kitchen waste by 50-100 kg, and promoting composting habits.
5. Develop a carbon-inclusive mini-program, engaging residents in two-carbon actions through demonstration families and technological means.
6. Institute an incentive mechanism for zero-waste family and community participation.
7. Summarize zero-waste community and family models.
Advocate zero-waste community policies, generating proposals for community sessions.