Recycling at School!
Your child's school is doing its part to maintain a healthy community by providing recycling for students, teachers and faculty to use at school. By making use of the free recycling program, schools can teach children how to care for our environment while keeping the garbage disposal costs low.
Why Recycle?
- Reduce trash at school
- Promote awareness of the environment
- Conserve natural resources like trees, metal and oil (used to make plastic)
- Reduce pollution and energy use
- Help maintain a healthy, beautiful planet for everyone!
Where is Recycling?
Recycling containers can be found in classrooms and offices for all sorts of paper and cardboard. Lunch and break areas have larger cans for recycling food and beverage containers
What can be Recycled at School?
- White, colored, & construction paper
- Newspapers & magazines
- Paperbacks books, manuals, & coloring books
- Cardboard
- Aluminum and tin cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Plastic food & beverage containers
- Milk cartons and juice boxes (no juice pouches, i.e. Capri Sun)
What You Can Do to Help
- Talk to your children about recycling & ask them what they recycle at school
- Find reusable options for their packed lunches (i.e. lunchbox instead of paper bag, Tupperware instead of plastic bags, cloth napkin instead of paper napkin)
- Volunteer your time at school to help with the recycling program
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