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Early Environmental Education Will Create Future Green Ambassadors

July 12, 2018 | by J. Scott Collard

Individual attitudes and habits are formed at a very early age. This fact accentuates the need to provide environmental education and hands-on experiences to children. We need to give students the environmental knowledge and understanding in order to create the next generation of responsible, environmental stewards. By increasing a student’s knowledge using educational programs concerning recycling, they develop their attitudes and behaviors in a positive way thereby gaining environmental awareness.

In some cases, school children are better informed on critical environmental issues than their parents, and environmental education received by students indirectly influenced their parents in recycling efforts.

Chesterfield, MO Elementary School involves students with a fun recycling and composting program using the GreenDrop Recycling Station, with instructional labels that includes Water Harvesting and a Food Waste and Compostables with daily updates.

The rapidly increasing world population, combined with an escalation in consumption of natural sources, the lack of effective public education, and the unconscious use of our natural resources has become a growing environmental concern. In developed countries it has been identified that there has been a decrease in food waste, yet an increase in packaging waste. These negative effects have caused society to worry about the future of our environment. A number of natural resources have been destroyed for the production of consumables that then become solid wastes. The only possible way to reduce the destruction of our natural resources is by producing less solid waste and increasing recycling.

Awty International School in Houston, Texas is striving to become a zero waste campus. Quite an ambitious goal for a Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade private school. Awty educational program combines high academic standards that celebrates all cultural, national, and linguistic diversity. Preparing it’s graduates to be global citizens who are concerned with contemporary issues and visions for the future.

Olivier Logette, the school’s sustainability coordinator, wants to educate Awty students about issues regarding recycling, up-cycling, and refurbishing daily items used in school activities. Challenging them to think about how small environmental actions can contribute to the greater global good for generations to come.

”Our school already had a recycling program designed for the normal waste streams; paper, plastics, and metals,” Logette stated, “but we realized that what was left out was school related wastes: writing instruments, electronics, ink cartridges and batteries from their school electronics.”

Logette was able to find companies that collect and recycle, upcycle or refurbish those waste stream items, some for a fee, others for free. “We wanted to capture and collect those school related waste items and needed a comprehensive, self-sorting station that accommodated such collections.”

After some research, Atwy chose the GreenDrop Recycling Station from Pacific Cascade Corporation. The unique GreenDrop Recycling Station was developed through the multi-year efforts of the Portland Trail Blazers head office and the Moda Center. The arena’s landfill diversion rate increased from 38% in 2007 to over 90% in 2012, in part by replacing old-style trash cans with GreenDrop Recycling Stations. GreenDrop stations helped reduce landfill contributions by visually showing users how to properly dispose of recyclable items. GreenDrops were a key tool in reducing their venue’s environmental footprint through fiscally responsible, and sustainable operations.

“Everyone here at Awty loves those GreenDrop stations and the fact that our school goes beyond the normal recycling streams. Our students, faculty, and staff find the bins present themselves very well and are very functional,” added Logette.

Generally, GreenDrop Recycling Stations are used in commercial applications and have advertising or branding areas on their front panel. Logette, a biology and geology teacher, came up with a unique opportunity to involve more students in this zero waste project. “I am always trying to extend sustainability in all courses and levels as much as possible. Our Art teachers were very happy to participate when I approached them with the project. Normally, the blank advertising space on the bins are great for marketing, but in a school situation, it doesn’t really make sense. That space gives the art students a permanent exhibition to display their art and help promote our zero waste goal.”

Providing students with environmental awareness will prepare them to become the future champions of our environment, knowledgeable about environmental issues, our limited natural resources, and to be sensitive to nature. That way, subsequent generations can enjoy and care for our environment better than we are doing today.

Filed Under: GreenDrop News, Schools, Students, Teachers

YOU CAN WIN THE COLLEGE SPORTS SUSTAINABILITY MAKEOVER!

March 17, 2016 | by J. Scott Collard

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Enter To Win prizes & assistance valued at over $50,000 to support college sports and campus sustainability.

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The Green Sports Alliance has unveiled a contest to help college sports programs kick start or upgrade their existing sustainability program in their sports venues to boost the visibility of all their campus sustainability efforts.

The winning two campuses will receive ten brand new customizable recycling bins donated by Max-R or GreenDrop Recycling and Composting Stations, a full compostable food service product upgrade donated by Eco-Products, and on-site expert sports facility assessments, workshops and recommendations from ESPN and CU Boulder sports sustainability experts.

The College Sports Sustainability Makeover Contest is designed to help all campus sustainability efforts by improving the campus environmental footprint, enhancing fan behaviors in-game and at home, and boosting overall campus reputation.

 

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Creating a Winning Collegiate Sports Sustainability Program

March 2, 2016 | by J. Scott Collard

Learn how to implement sustainability in sports to reduce your campus environmental footprint, better align athletics with campus goals, mainstream campus sustainability, and get paid for it!

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Date: Thursday, March 24th                   Time: 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST

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Over the past decade, a growing number of collegiate athletic programs have initiated or expanded their sustainability systems. With athletics traditionally recognized as “the front porch of the campus,” campus sustainability efforts also benefit from the high profile and fan engagement that athletics initiatives bring. This webinar will highlight collegiate sports greening and its benefits to the campus, how athletics and sustainability staff and other stakeholders can work together to build a collegiate sports greening program, how to get credit for sports greening in STARS, and how to win new sponsors to help fund sustainability.

Panel Discussion Will Cover:

  • How to leverage colleges’ and universities’ biggest sustainability platform – sports
  • Engaging campus sports and sustainability programs: what do they want?
  • Fielding a sports sustainability team: student/staff/community power-plays
  • Kickoff: A zero waste ground game sets up the long pass
  • Paying it forward: sponsorships, bigger teams, and brighter lights

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Filed Under: Green Sports Alliance, Schools, Sustainability Tagged With: College Sports Sustainability, Webinar

Elementary School Involves Students With A Fun Recycling Program

October 10, 2014 | by J. Scott Collard

Chesterfield Elementary in Chesterfield, MO in the Rockwood School District received 2 GreenDrop Recycling Stations to be used in a new Landfill Diversion program that includes composting food waste, collecting recyclable materials, and water harvesting.

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The school received a grant to purchase the GreenDrop Recycling Stations for students and staff to use. School administrators plan to have competitions between classes and grade levels to see who can divert the most from local landfills. They will award prizes to the group who does the best. They also plan to have a competition for student artwork and messages to be displayed on the two front display panels on each station.

“We received our containers yesterday and the students opened the boxes today. Thank you so much for working with us. We will be sharing with our grant provider later today and look forward to her being just as please as we are. Thanks for your time and for working with us”, stated Mitzy Cruzen spokesperson for the Rockwood School District.

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This is the first GreenDrop Station that will provide a Water Harvesting waste stream, and a whiteboard type label that can be adjusted every day to reflect what is being served in the school cafeteria for the Food Waste / Compostable waste stream.

Lyle Peters, Director of Sales for the GreenDrop Stations at Pacific Cascade Corporation based in Vancouver, WA, adds, “This is a very ambitious program to instill the importance of reducing landfill contributions at a very young age. Making composting and recycling a habit at an early age will set a precedent over a lifetime.

Filed Under: GreenDrop News, Schools Tagged With: Chesterfield Elementary, Water Harvesting

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