Creating a Sustainable Environmental Education Program for Schools

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Creating a Sustainable Environmental Education
Program for Schools
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The irecycle_at_school partnership with School
Districts in Alameda County

• Support District commitment to waste reduction
  and recycling with
• technical assistance,
• curriculum support and
• educational enrichment for teachers and students
• Provide students with opportunity to practice and
  apply 4Rs behaviors in everyday life.
• Enable students to influence family 4rs beliefs
  and practices.

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Technical Assistance to Districts Conducted by
Environmental Science Associates Kelly
Runyan, John Hanscom, Cybele Chang

• Annual Waste Audit and Green Report
• Right-sizing of waste and recycling services
• Implementation of food scrap recycling programs
• Assistance with franchise negotiations
• Presentation of custodial training workshops

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Waste Audit and Service Level Projections
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Achieving 50 Diversion

• Bin in every classroom, office, common space
• Clear signage at recycling and waste containers
• On-site Champion
• Carefully cultivated Culture of 4Rs
• Integration of 4Rs into classroom curriculum
• School assemblies, waste-free lunch,
  trash-pile, bring- in-your-old-coat-for-Goodwil
  l type events
• Leadership (bin monitoring) by older classroom
  grades, student council, ecology club
• Student participation in collection efforts

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Achieving 75 Diversion

• Implementation of food scrap recycling
• Attention to purchasing, reuse and recycling of
  materials
• E-waste
• Furniture
• Textbooks

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Estimated Resources Saved
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Assumptions for Resource Savings Estimates