Environmental volunteering

[6][8] Citizen science can be used as a methodology where public volunteers help in collecting and classifying data, improving the scientific community's capacity.

[10][9][11] Internships are typically longer term voluntary placements, aimed at graduates wishing to gain the experience required to work in the environmental sector.

The Taylor Report into working practises advocated the banning of unpaid internships as they were seen as a barrier to those entering professions from low socio-economic backgrounds.

Specific concerns relating to Internships in the Environmental sector are more based reducing the number of level entry posts, exploitation for menial tasks.

[12] The concept of 'voluntary credentialism' with extended periods of volunteer work being seen as required for paid roles, whether of relevance to the post or not, is being seen.

A cleanup or clean-up is a form of environmental volunteering where a group of people get together to pick-up and dispose of litter in a designated location.

Volunteers at Sure We Can clean McKibbin Street on Earth Day, 2021
This is a picture of an open laptop on a desk. The student using the laptop is not pictured but you can see one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse pad as if they are in the middle of using the computer. The website on the laptop says EyeWire in rainbow colors at the upper left of the screen and there is a menu option bar across the top of the webpage. The webpage has a black background with a large picture of what appears to be a neuron structure (which looks like branches of purple squiggly lines coming from a small, spherical component). To the right of the screen is where you enter login information and the top left it says, "What is EyeWire? Play a game to map the brain."
A high school student contributes to the citizen science project EyeWire as part of a neurology course.
Volunteers at recycling center Sure We Can clean-up McKibbin Street on Earth Day, 2021