DOES YOUR SCHOOL RECYCLE? IF SO, WE NEED YOU TO REGISTER!!!
WANT TO COMPETE AGAINST OTHER SCHOOLS RECYCLING
GreenSylvania is a great program if you already have a recycling program initiated at the schools in your county but especially if you don't! It's just the boost you need to get your school personnel and students enthused and involved! The actual registration form will be available online at www.greensylvania.org in September.
For the competitive comparison, the recycling results will be calculated on a school by a per capita basis. The winning school will receive a plaque in recognition of their achievement and their name engraved on a traveling trophy which they will keep until the following year’s competition. The county with the most schools involved will also receive a plaque.
Please contact Beth DeNardi, Luzerne County Recycling Coordinator at beth@luzernecounty.org for more information or check out the links below on how to get your school registered for this competition.
CONGRATUALATIONS :
BEAR CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
on winning the
"GREENSYLVANIA"
school recycling competition, in Luzerne County!
Wyoming Valley West Middle School also participated and turned in great numbers as well!
Thanks to both schools, students and staff for helping to put Luzerne County On the map for school recycling! Thanks to all for a job well done and also for their committment to helping to save our precious environment!! Hope to see you and many more at the next competition!!
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teams with TerraCycle to recycle Bags, Containers
May 4 -- Plastic bag and container maker Ziploc has teamed with TerraCycle to increase recycling of its products. The actual registration form will be available online at
KIDS RECYCLING CONTEST:
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/contest/index.html
Ziploc
The company will sponsor the newest TerraCycle Brigade, which allows schools to collect Ziploc bags and containers and then send them back to the company. For each bag or container collected, Ziploc and TerraCycle will pay two cents to the school actually doing the collection.
"We are really pleased to be adding new materials to our collection programs," said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. "It´s exciting to be able to find new uses for more and more materials that would otherwise be ending up in landfills and giving schools a much needed fundraising opportunity at the same time."
Other "brigades" collect drink pouches, chip bags, yogurt cups, glue bottles and sticks, tape dispensers and pens.
For more information, visit www.terracycle.net/brigades.
Contact Waste & Recycling News reporter Amanda Smith-Teutsch at 330-865-6166 or asmith-teutsch@crain.com
Research shows that today’s children would benefit greatly from spending more time outdoors and making deeper connections to the natural world. Getting children outside, however, is just the first step. Children learn a great deal exploring their natural surroundings but deeper learning involves interpreting what they see, touch and smell, as well as synthesizing this information to construct meaning.
The Dimensions Educational Research Foundation in collaboration with the National Arbor Day Foundation has developed a series of Nature Explore workshops for educators and designers to help them design and use outdoor classrooms that use natural materials such as trees, logs, soils and water. Visit www.arborday.org/explore for more information.
On Friday, May 21st, 2010, “Learning with Nature: Creating and Using Outdoor Classrooms” will be held from 8:30am to 12:30pm at the Penn State Hazleton Campus, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
This half day workshop is designed for:
- Pre-School and Elementary Teachers
- Day Care Providers
- Environmental Educators & Naturalists
- Landscape Architects & Designers
- Parks and Recreation Directors
- School/Daycare Administrators
Act 48 Credits will be offered to educators
Attached is a flyer for this program, explaining the registration process for this workshop.
Learning with natureFlyer.pdf
parks, schools, offices and special events.
From PROP’s Education Committee:
Teachers, do your students have bottle caps and Capri Sun Drink Pouches?
Bottle Caps http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp
“Your school can be part of the solution by joining recycle Caps with Aveda.”
Join Aveda's caps recycling initiative that helps extend the current boundaries of recycling and elicits participation from all corners of our community. With the help of our network of salons and stores, in partnership with community schools, we have created a recycling program for plastic bottle caps. Caps are collected at enrolled schools and then sent by Aveda to our recycler where the material is recycled into new caps and containers. Aveda has been able to work closely with our suppliers to develop ways to make new caps from the recycled caps and we plan to incorporate these caps into future Aveda products.”)
Capri Sun drink pouches http://brands.kraftfoods.com/caprisun/be-green-earn-green.aspx
Earn Cash for your School or Organization – Start a drink pouch brigade and your school or organization gets cash for helping us upcycle drink pouches into cool fashion bags, totes, pencil cases and more. Plus, your kids get a fun lesson in eco-friendly action! Our partners at TerraCycle will help you start a drink pouch brigade at your home, school or organization.
