Green Up Our Schools!
National Elementary School Waste Reduction & Recycling Program
Change your school, change the world!
College Park’s Waste Assessment
Step 1 -- Weigh All the TrashUsing a simple bathroom scale, all the trash produced in one 24-hour period was weighed with the students’ help.
Total trash produced in one day: 74 lbs. of classroom trash(not including breakfast/lunch trash)
Step 2 -- Sort it!
Using gloves, the students sorted a bag of classroom trash into two different categories:
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recyclables - paper, cardboard, cans, bottles, etc.
non-recyclables - plastic bags, paper towels, laminated paper, etc.
The Results:College Park learned that 46% of their classroom trash is actually recyclable -- that’s equal to 170 pounds a week!
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The Waste Assessment will be performed again at the end of the school year to track improvements. Hopefully there will be much less recyclable material in the trash by then!
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