2.3 Solid Waste Reduction
Waste Free Wednesday Campaign
Creating Posters
Date: November 2018
Teacher: Kim Dunn Grade: Kindergarten Description: Kindergarten students watched a video about landfills and discuss how they can make an impact on the amount of trash we create at Parr’s Ridge during lunch alone. Students colored posters for around our school and passed them out to teachers to hang in their classrooms and work areas. |
Measuring Trash
Updates on WPAR Announcements
Date: Weekly throughout the Year
Grade: Second Grade Description: Our second grade Green School Reps wrote scripts for our weekly news broadcast. They shared tips for teachers and students for becoming Waste Free on Wednesdays. They challenged students and staff member to pack their lunch in reusable containers. |
Waste Free Bulletin Board
Date: November 2017- Current
Description: Our “Waste Free Wednesday” bulletin board is right outside of the cafeteria. Teachers discuss and encourage kids to be Waste Free when packing lunches. Students participated in conversations about how they can reduce their waste at lunch time.
Description: Our “Waste Free Wednesday” bulletin board is right outside of the cafeteria. Teachers discuss and encourage kids to be Waste Free when packing lunches. Students participated in conversations about how they can reduce their waste at lunch time.
Ms. Creighton’s Kindergarten Class and Mrs. Donoghue’s First Grade class discussing Waste Free Wednesdays using our Bulletin Board as a conversation starter
Waste Free Wednesday Class Discussions
Students are sharing ideas to help reduce lunch waste
Paper Towel Posters
Date: March 2019
Grade: After School Green Club Description: Students in the after school Green Club learned about the importance of conserving paper towels, and only using what you need to dry your hands. They discussed how many “pumps” of the dispenser would give enough paper towels, then created posters to mount on all the paper towel dispensers in the school. These posters will serve as reminders to students and staff to use only what they need. |
Discussing how many “pumps” of the dispenser is necessary
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Signs hung on the paper towel dispensers around our school
Decorating signs for paper towel dispensers
Art Lesson about Recycling Crayons and Markers
Date: January 2019
Teacher: Michelle Neddo Grade: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade Description: All students at Parr’s Ridge learned about why they should collect old, broken crayons. They learned that crayons do not decompose, they are bad for the environment in our landfills and they can be recycled. |
Student worksheet on benefits of recycling crayons
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Active Inspire Flipchart shown to all classes
Classroom Support: Crayon and Marker Recycling
Date: January 2019
Teacher: All Classroom Teachers
Grade: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade
Description: Classroom teachers showed a video, which was created by an elementary school in California in 2013. The kids in the video approached Crayola about starting a recycling program, and even though their video and petition was signed by 91,319 supporters, Crayola originally said “No”. Crayola has since figured it out- and is now running a program called Colorcycle, which recycles crayons and markers. It is beneficial for our students to see other kids passionate about the Earth and taking steps to make it a better place for us all.
Teacher: All Classroom Teachers
Grade: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade
Description: Classroom teachers showed a video, which was created by an elementary school in California in 2013. The kids in the video approached Crayola about starting a recycling program, and even though their video and petition was signed by 91,319 supporters, Crayola originally said “No”. Crayola has since figured it out- and is now running a program called Colorcycle, which recycles crayons and markers. It is beneficial for our students to see other kids passionate about the Earth and taking steps to make it a better place for us all.
Classrooms had collection boxes to recycle markers and crayons
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Students watched an informative video on ColorCycle Crayon Recycling
https://www.change.org/p/crayola-make-your-mark-set-up-a-marker-recycling-program |
Sorting Crayons to Recycle
Date: March 2019
Grade: After School Green Club Description: Students in the after school Green Club collected the box of donated crayons in the lobby. They sorted them by color in brown paper bags and cardboard boxes. They surprised at how many crayons had been collected and how long it too to sort! This will be an ongoing project for the Green Club! Green Club students sorted crayons by color
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Collecting the
BIG box of donated crayons |
TerraCycle Recycling Program
Classroom Student Recyclers
Date: 2016 - Current
Grade: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade Description: Teachers were encouraged to have students dump the classroom recycling into our large hallway recycling bins. Custodians emptied the large recycling bins daily, or every other day, into the large recycling dumpster in our loading dock. |
Visiting the Recycling Dumpster
Date: January 2019
Teacher: Celeste Donoghue Grade: First Grade Description: Mrs. Donoghue's first graders took a trip outside to our school’s recycling dumpster. They learned about the process of collecting recycling from the classrooms, and how it gets placed into the large dumpster in our loading dock area. They learned that the recycling then goes to the Carroll County Recycling Center to get sorted. |
Mrs. Donoghue's first graders at our recycling loading dock dumpster
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