Illinois Waste Management and Research Center

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Illinois Waste Management and Research Center
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WMRCs Mission

• Our mission is to conserve natural resources,
  reduce waste and increase economic viability by
  providing Illinois businesses, institutions and
  citizens with information, research, innovative
  technologies and technical assistance.

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Illinois Greening Schoolswww.greeningschools.org

• Illinois WMRC
• Illinois EPA
• Illinois DNR

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Greening Schools Mission

• Greening Schools project is a state
  governmental effort designed to assist schools
  with
• Improving physical environmental conditions
• Providing standards-based tools to introduce
  concepts of waste reduction and pollution
  prevention.

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Greening Schools

• Students
• Teachers
• Facility Managers

• Other Staff
• Parents
• Administrators

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Greening School Resources

• Outreach
• On-site workshops and reviews
• Green Chemistry Art Health and Safety Educator
  Workshops Demonstrations
• Mercury When Fun Turns into Danger
• Greening Your Lessons assistance
• Biblioresources

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Greening School Benefits Include

• Lowered operating costs
• Increased safety and environmental health at
  school for students and staff
• Professional development credits and
  administrator credits
• Improved learning conditions
• Set an example of environmental responsibility
  and sustainable behavior

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Why does Greening Schools exist?

• Every school faces different environmental
  challenges but
• many of the same constraints

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Constraints include

• Limited funding
• Rising energy and maintenance costs
• Lack of resources and technical assistance
• Lack of time to research resources

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Hazardous Materials

• Do you recognize this box?

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Energy Use

• For most school districts, energy use and other
  utilities are the second biggest operating
  expense.
• School energy costs are estimated at 110 per
  student per year.

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Typical Building Electrical Costs
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What is the True Cost of Lighting?
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Traditional Daylighting
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Indoor Air Quality

• Indoor air quality continues to be a growing
  concern. Strategies that can minimize indoor air
  quality problems include

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Indoor Air Quality Simple Improvement Techniques

• Using low-emission maintenance and cleaning
  supplies
• Adopting anti-idling policies for buses
• Cleaning spills immediately

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Pest Control IPM

• Encourage IPM strategies
• Monitoring
• Identification
• IPM Plan

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Greening Schools also provides

• Workshops for the arts instructors
• Fact sheets
• Access to grants and funding opportunities
• Checklists
• Standards-based lesson plans
• Curricula and activities
• All related to waste reduction, pollution
  prevention and energy efficiency.

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Greening Schools Grants

• Semi-competitive
• Two grants for each type of project
• First come, first served basis
• Up to 2,500 available
• Public and Private K-12 schools

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On-site workshops and reviews

• Safe Chemicals in Education for teachers Workshop
  with Illinois EPA and Illinois WMRC
• Keeping Schools Healthy and Safe with IEPA for
  custodians
• Energy audits and assessments
• Safe Art Classroom Workshops

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How can my school participate?
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Prevent this from occurring.
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Participate in a Safe Chemicals in Education
Workshop for teachers.
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Green Chemistry Get off to a safe start

• Use nonhazardous starting materials
• Prevent build up with Green Chemistry

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• Available through Greening Schools

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Greening Your Lessonswww.greeningschools.org

• Resources for teachers..

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• Art
• America Recycles Day
• Awards
• Biology    Green Roofs    Rain Gardens
• Chemistry    Green Chemistry
• Composting
• Consumer Education
• Earth Day    Elementary    Middle School
     High School
• Educator Resources    Chemistry   
  Environmental    Language Arts
• Energy    Bio Mass Energy    Conservation
     Efficiency    Electricity    Geo
  Thermal Energy
• Hydro Energy    Nuclear    Ocean   
  Renewable    Solar Energy    Wind Energy

• Health Education
• History and Social Studies
• Industrial Arts/Vocational Classes
• Integrated Pest Management
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Map Resources
• Math
• Physics
• Pollution Prevention (General)    Air Quality
     Mercury    Fund Raising Opportunities
• Recycling and Reuse
• Schoolyard Projects
• Special Education
• Theater and Performing Arts
• Waste Reduction
• Water
• Water Conservation Issues    Rain Gardens
• From GreeningSchools.org

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Green Your Building www.greeningschools.org
Resources for administrators..
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• Alternative Energy Sources
• Awards for Achievement
• Athletic Facilities
• Cafeteria/Food Service
• Chemical Management
• Consumer Information
• Daylighting
• Energy Efficiency
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• Green Building/High Performance Schools
• Case Studies
• Green Roofs
• Groundskeeping/Landscaping
• Health Education
• Indoor Air Quality
• Integrated Pest Management

Janitorial Supplies Laboratories Mercury Mold Pest
Management Pollution Prevention Product Life
Cycle Analysis Recycling Theater and Performing
Arts Transportation Waste Reduction Water
Conservation Water Quality From
GreeningSchools.org (Green Your Building)
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Biblioresourceswww.greeningschools.org

• --Reference, text, handbook, non-fiction
  fiction
• --Videos virtual tours
• --Reviews of new releases

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WMRCs Library

• Contributes to the Biblioresources
• Is a Clearinghouse for Pollution Prevention and
  Waste Management Resources
• Can be reached at 217-333-8957 or
  library_at_wmrc.uiuc.edu

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Greening Schools contacts

• Carol Knepp, 217-333-8940, cknepp_at_wmrc.uiuc.edu
• Becky Lockart, 217 244 5637, Becky.Lockart_at_epa.sta
  te.il.us
• www.greeningschools.org