One of the steps to becoming a certified Eco-School along the Consumption and Waste Pathway is to do an audit of your school’s waste to see if there are things being thrown away that could be recycled, reused, composted, or in some other way saved from the landfill. The student members of the Green Team bravely donned their plastic gloves and sorted through two bags of trash from the hallways of Fairview. We were a bit surprised at what we found…although we are in our third year of a school-wide recycling program, and many of the kids are doing a great job recycling every day in their classrooms and in the cafeteria, it looks like we still have a lot of room for improvement.
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| "Why is this perfectly good pencil in the trash?" |
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| Only a little over half of our "trash" is actually trash! |
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| The results after the green team students sorted two bags of “trash” into white paper, colored paper, cardboard, plastic, metal and actual trash, which included food waste. |
