SOLID WASTE REDUCTION
School Wide Recycling
The
Mount Washington School is very proud to participate in Baltimore City’s Single
Stream Recycling Program. Recycling bins
are located in every classroom and throughout the schools’ two buildings in
common areas, such as the office, library, and cafeteria. In the beginning of each school year,
teachers review with the students the materials that can be recycled both at
school and home and the importance of recycling. Throughout the school year, it is put into
practice! Students, teachers and staff
all recycle paper, cardboard, cans and plastics.
Wednesday is recycling pickup day at the Mount Washington School. Students in both the Lower and Upper Buildings are actively involved in collecting the recycling bins from each classroom and common area and placing it outside for pick up by Baltimore City. By having the students put out the recycling bins each week they are more invested and conscious of the recycling program. By learning and practicing good recycling habits at school, students will be more likely to continue those good habits at home. The Mount Washington School is doing its part to help the City reach its goal of 35% citywide recycling participation.
Below are photographs showing students from the Upper and Lower Buildings collecting and putting out the recycling bins. The photographs demonstrate that even a lot of snow does not stop our recycling program! Students in grades K to 3 and grades 7 & 8 participate in the recycling program on consistent basis.
Wednesday is recycling pickup day at the Mount Washington School. Students in both the Lower and Upper Buildings are actively involved in collecting the recycling bins from each classroom and common area and placing it outside for pick up by Baltimore City. By having the students put out the recycling bins each week they are more invested and conscious of the recycling program. By learning and practicing good recycling habits at school, students will be more likely to continue those good habits at home. The Mount Washington School is doing its part to help the City reach its goal of 35% citywide recycling participation.
Below are photographs showing students from the Upper and Lower Buildings collecting and putting out the recycling bins. The photographs demonstrate that even a lot of snow does not stop our recycling program! Students in grades K to 3 and grades 7 & 8 participate in the recycling program on consistent basis.
Repurposed Materials
The
Art Department at The Mount Washington School is very proud of the creative art
done by the students using recycled or repurposed materials. Recently, the middle school students
completed two projects using objects that would have otherwise ended up in the
garbage. The 7th graders finished a
Joseph Cornell Conceptual Art Sculpture unit. Each student was given a
box to fill with recycled and repurposed items collected from the community and
the school. The boxes themselves were saved from the trash. They were formerly the microfilm storage
boxes in the Goucher Library. When the
library underwent renovations, they converted the back issues of microfilm to
digital and the storage boxes were no longer needed. The Mount Washington School art teacher saved
100 boxes for use as an assemblage sculpture. The students’ goal was to
communicate a message with a clear theme to their viewer with their art. The collection that the students could sample
from included old hardware, interior design samples that would have been thrown
away (hardwood samples, plastic samples, fabric, glass, stone and tile), old
magazines, old trinkets, paper scraps, old film containers,
"old-school" book pockets, old technology, etc.
The second recent project was a paper mache project where
the students used large quantities of old newspapers to make mini-sarcophaguses.
They also used repurposed large blue prints from Goucher College to form the
top layer on the paper mache projects.
The Art Department enjoys engaging the students in creative and artistic art projects using repurposed and recycled materials. The art teachers employ “green” practices in the classroom. Instead of using paper towels to clean up, cloth towels are used. The art teachers reuse the same cloth towels and take them the home weekly to wash.
The Art Department enjoys engaging the students in creative and artistic art projects using repurposed and recycled materials. The art teachers employ “green” practices in the classroom. Instead of using paper towels to clean up, cloth towels are used. The art teachers reuse the same cloth towels and take them the home weekly to wash.