New Germany Green Team

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New Germany Green Team

• A School-wide Effort to Create a More Efficient,
  Less Wasteful Environment

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The Green Team

• The team consists of students from grades 4 6,
  two teachers and the custodian.
• They will have completed three training sessions
  this year along with the custodian, two teachers
  involved in organizing the team and the kitchen
  staff.

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Education

• The bulletin board has been used to show
  students/staff where common recyclables,
  refundables, compost and paper items are properly
  placed.

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Schedule

• Students signed up for one day a week to carry
  out the recycling tasks.
• Because of many other noon-hour activities
  happening at the school, students are free to
  trade off days.

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Every room in the school is equipped with
posters, a paper container, compost bucket,
recyclable tub and a small garbage can. Every
container is collected daily by grade 6 students.
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Paper Towels

• In the kitchen and bathrooms containers are used
  for wet paper towels.

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Collection

• Two students collect the bins from the
  classrooms, one for the rooms downstairs and one
  for the rooms upstairs to be taken to a central
  location for sorting.
• The bins have classroom numbers on them.

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Recyclables

• Rubber gloves are worn to protect hands.
• They are hung on an indoor clothes-line to dry.

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Sorting

• Two students sort the recyclables as clean or
  items that need to be rinsed.
• A compost and garbage bin is nearby in case of
  mistakes from the bins.

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Rinsing

• Two containers are used to clean any recyclables
  before placing them into the large bin.
• Usually one large transparent bag gets filled
  daily.

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Cleaning

• All the collection bins are washed and dried
  before being returned to the rooms in the school.

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Starting Over

• Two students return the clean bins to start the
  process the next day.

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Refundables

• Most classes place their refundables in a
  container in the classroom. Others place them in
  the recyclable bins and the Green Team sorts them.

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Fundraiser

• Students in the grade
• 5 6 classroom daily collect, rinse and
  return the bottles as a fundraiser.

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Keeping Track

• One team member writes down items from each
  classroom that are not placed properly.
• More than three errors (grade 4-6) and five
  (grade P-3) means the classroom gets a rejection
  sticker.

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Rejection Stickers

• The classrooms post the rejection stickers on a
  wall as a friendly reminder of their global duty
  as citizens to help the earth.

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Busted

• Three rejection stickers means that class has to
  send representatives (6-8) to do the recycling
  process the next day.

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Compost Bins

• After lunch break, students from the grade 6
  class daily collect, empty and wash the compost
  bins with the help of the custodian.

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All the items are put into the proper bins
outside the school. The barn is used for paper.
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Earth Day Fun

• Click on the earth to practice sorting
• of paper, cans and plastic.
• Click on the sandcastle to place common beach
  items in the correct containers.
• Sing along with Cycler and his 'Rubbish Rap
  song.

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Thanks

• New Germany students and staff continue to learn
  how to participate in the 3 Rs Reduce, Reuse
  and Recycle with the efforts of the team.
• Thank you, team ,for taking your free time to
  help all of us everyday to improve in these areas.