Classroom Paper Recycling
Submitted by jastwist11 on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 19:56.
Last updated on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 22:29.
Vital Stats
ongoing project
People Involved: 7Project Video
The Problem
Our school has no recyling program. We are starting a classroom paper recycling program. We have been meeting with city sanitation officials and have a paper dumpster beign brought to our school.
Why It's Important
So much of the waste thrown out at school is classroom paper. Our goal is to get paper out of landfills and recycle it instead.
The Plan Of Action
We have been meeting with a city sanitation official (Jerry Young) and he is in the process of getting us a paper dumpster which he will hire a contracter to retrieve when it is full. Right now we are working on distributing the individual classroom paper bins and creating a schedule for emptying them.
Project Updates
11/4/08
Update: We took a plastic sample and discovered our school generates about 30 gallons of plastic (after being crushed) daily. We decided not to recycle the milk jugs because we have no way to clean them and they would ruin the trailer we are using to haul the plastic. We are now waiting for DETCOG to get us large trash cans that will be used to store the plastic.Additional hours volunteered: 1
Additional people impacted: 0
Additional people involved: 7
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Wow, what a great step to make a change in your school! You should definitely look into entering Do Something's Increase Your Green competition!! Make sure you post some pictures of those brand new cans in use!!
We definitely will! We are real excited but getting going is kind of hard right now. We should be started within the next two weeks! Thanks for your support!