When starting up a schoolwide recycling effort the first step is to know what will and will not be recycled. This materials can range from food such as raw fruit to synthetic materials such as plastic. Food, Batteries, printer cartridges, paper, metal, and plastic are all things we can recycle. Materials such as food are easier to recycle as we can just add them to a compost pile. Other materials such as printer cartridges are more complicated. Before we start we need to look at our asset map. On our asset map is Billy’s dad, who works in our community recycling center. He will come to our class to describe in detail every way each item gets recycled. We will also look at social bookmarking. This is a resource you can use to tag different websites with keywords and share them with other people. For example, we can look for tags like recycling. Now that we know what we can recycle how can we collect the materials?
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ReplyDeleteAnother great thing to do besides recycling is finding ways to reduce your trash. Reducing trash is also a very good thing to do that is helpful for the planet. People are very wasteful and we need to try and change that. There are many simple ways you can reduce your trash that can be just as helpful as recycling. A good example of this would be using scraps of paper in the classrooms. There could be a bin set up in every classroom that is only for pieces of scrap paper. Students can then use these pieces. Another great way to reduce trash is buy more reusable containers. Reusable containers are much better to use then using plastic bags to store things. Another idea that is becoming very popular these days is buying reusable bags and bringing them with you to do your shopping. This is an easy thing to do and will greatly reduce the amount of plastic bags that are thrown in the landfills each year. Doing this few simple things can really help reduce trash and will help the landfills from growing bigger and bigger. What other ideas can we come up with that will help us reduce our trash amount in the school? How can we get each classroom involved in these ideas? Let’s try to come up with some fun ideas that will help get us all involved with keeping our school and planet clean.