STUDENT DRIVEN SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES
Solid Waste Reduction
Recycling Audits
Energy captains make recycling audits on Wednesday mornings. These audits note the weekly winning class, give a recycling green tip (quote), as well as move recycling product out for school. Both the quote and recycling class winner acknowledged on morning announcements. They have gotten creative with a Recycling Train where teamwork is key for fun!
Green Leaders created a recycling audit that includes weight and deductions for non-recyclables. Their recycling method has proved a model for the energy captains. Adopting this framework, the captains have increased their efficiency by measuring the recycling and placing most bins in a larger wheeled recycling receptacle.
View Council of Green Leaders Recycling Log
View Energy Captains Recycle Log
Energy captains make recycling audits on Wednesday mornings. These audits note the weekly winning class, give a recycling green tip (quote), as well as move recycling product out for school. Both the quote and recycling class winner acknowledged on morning announcements. They have gotten creative with a Recycling Train where teamwork is key for fun!
Green Leaders created a recycling audit that includes weight and deductions for non-recyclables. Their recycling method has proved a model for the energy captains. Adopting this framework, the captains have increased their efficiency by measuring the recycling and placing most bins in a larger wheeled recycling receptacle.
View Council of Green Leaders Recycling Log
View Energy Captains Recycle Log
Recycling Robot Creation
Keeping in mind that Recycling is simply industrial strength Re-Use our scholars creatively reuse material for recycling efforts. EC 500 and EC 5000 are two long term used robots that are created to recycle. Placing two boxes together properly with a little decoration forms the EC 500 recycling robot. This captures the water cups after use at the water cooler. Before this all cups were thrown into the wast bin. Now we have kept a 70% recycle rate over two years. Audits of this were taken twice a week. Continual practice helps our captains easily learn and reinforce math concepts of fractions and percentages. It also keeps recyclable cups where they belong! Thanks Energy Captais for the great Recycling Robots.
Keeping in mind that Recycling is simply industrial strength Re-Use our scholars creatively reuse material for recycling efforts. EC 500 and EC 5000 are two long term used robots that are created to recycle. Placing two boxes together properly with a little decoration forms the EC 500 recycling robot. This captures the water cups after use at the water cooler. Before this all cups were thrown into the wast bin. Now we have kept a 70% recycle rate over two years. Audits of this were taken twice a week. Continual practice helps our captains easily learn and reinforce math concepts of fractions and percentages. It also keeps recyclable cups where they belong! Thanks Energy Captais for the great Recycling Robots.
Compost Waste Reduction
When the MWS lunches and breakfast are not fully eaten, what do we do? Put everything where it belongs. Energy Captains know that we need to power up at lunchtime. The proper place for food is in our bellies. Not apple cores, banana peels and other compostables. Recycling is the industrial strength reuse. Compost is natures promise of soil for plant food. We share "No-Waste-Wednesday" lunch where we show off our eating and composting powers to guest parents that come for lunch. Our EC-70 Robot is the compost and recycling machine stationed in the lunch room.
When the MWS lunches and breakfast are not fully eaten, what do we do? Put everything where it belongs. Energy Captains know that we need to power up at lunchtime. The proper place for food is in our bellies. Not apple cores, banana peels and other compostables. Recycling is the industrial strength reuse. Compost is natures promise of soil for plant food. We share "No-Waste-Wednesday" lunch where we show off our eating and composting powers to guest parents that come for lunch. Our EC-70 Robot is the compost and recycling machine stationed in the lunch room.
Recycling Efforts
MWS students are committed to recycling. Students and staff recycle all paper and all forms of containers. There are paper recycling bins in every classroom and throughout the upper and lower buildings. Energy Captains and Green Leaders have created processes of recycling collectioin to weigh and audit. Every week during the morning announcements winning classrooms are celebrated, students are assigned to take the recycle bins outside for pick-up.
MWS students are committed to recycling. Students and staff recycle all paper and all forms of containers. There are paper recycling bins in every classroom and throughout the upper and lower buildings. Energy Captains and Green Leaders have created processes of recycling collectioin to weigh and audit. Every week during the morning announcements winning classrooms are celebrated, students are assigned to take the recycle bins outside for pick-up.