School-Wide Environmental Behavior Changes
Student volunteers collect recycle bins from each classroom.To edit, click on the text to start adding your own words.
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Placing recycle bins outside for pickup.To edit, click on the text to start adding your own words.
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Step 1: Leadership
To ensure success there should be an individual that coordinates the school recycling program. That leader should contact us to get started.
Step 2: Recycling Infrastructure:
Work with your hauler or city staff to setup or improve upon existing collection infrastructure for you school.
Step 3: Classroom Collection Suggestions:
Every program has just a few rules the students and staff need to follow. Additionally, people also may have some questions that need to be addressed. There should be some plan as to how to get the word out about the program. There are many options, here are two:
School administrators should be diverting their recycling waste as well as the students. This collection should be done weekly. How this collection would take place would require some though.
Step 6: Playground Collection:
Playground collection of beverage & food containers can be set-up upon request.
To ensure success there should be an individual that coordinates the school recycling program. That leader should contact us to get started.
Step 2: Recycling Infrastructure:
Work with your hauler or city staff to setup or improve upon existing collection infrastructure for you school.
Step 3: Classroom Collection Suggestions:
- Option 1: Student Collection w/Supervision: classroom containers are collected by students at a prescribed time and taken to a staging area adjacent to the trash/recycling bins. Then, with supervision, the students take the material out to the recycling bin and return to the classroom with the empty collection container.
- Option 2: Student Collection w/Assistance: classroom containers are collected by students and taken to a staging area adjacent to the trash/recycling bins. The student returns to the classroom with an empty collection container (stack of empties provided at the staging area). At a later time, a custodian, parent volunteer, or coordinating teacher empties the collection containers into the bin and places the empty containers in a stack for the following collection cycle.
- Option 3: Custodial Staff Collection: Classrooms and administration collection containers are serviced by custodians.
Every program has just a few rules the students and staff need to follow. Additionally, people also may have some questions that need to be addressed. There should be some plan as to how to get the word out about the program. There are many options, here are two:
- Option 1: Student In-service: Because most collection programs on campus are performed by students, there should be a student lead educational component. A select group of students are chosen to perform a five minute classroom in-service for each classroom on campus; need to stress reasons to recycle, recycling procedure, myths, and trouble-shooting procedure. Student Council can draw-up some posters that can be distributed to reinforce the messages. The effort would be supported by Santa Monica staff. Drawbacks: training and presentation effort take time and dedication.
- Option 2: Flyer Distribution to Teachers w/Support: Teachers are given information that would be discussed in class individually at the teacher’s discretion. This effort can be reinforced with student council posters and/or public address system announcements, etc. Drawbacks: students are less involved and the message and program participation level can be diminished somewhat without clear student leadership.
School administrators should be diverting their recycling waste as well as the students. This collection should be done weekly. How this collection would take place would require some though.
Step 6: Playground Collection:
Playground collection of beverage & food containers can be set-up upon request.
- Aluminum beverage cans and food cans.
- Steel/tin food and beverage cans (e.g. fruit, soup).
- Clean aluminum foil and foil food trays
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