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RATIONAL/BACKGROUND
School recycling project provides its stakeholders with hands-on experience that
helps them grow to see that efforts to cut the wasteful use of resources does
make a difference. A variety of proactive activities can be used to teach everyone
to take responsibility for keeping the Earth cleaner and to learn how to help the
environment for a better future. According to the U.S. EPA, recycling: conserves
natural resources to help sustain the environment; reduces the need for landfilling
and incineration; saves energy and prevents pollution caused by the extraction
and processing of virgin materials therefore Recycling is necessary to reduce
waste in homes, schools and work places.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
A school recycling project can help stakeholders aware of where all that trash
goes and the fact that it is ‘go’, doesn't just ‘go away’. It's important to bring
landfills to the attention of future generations, because they are the ones that
will have to live with the consequences.
Landfills
School Recyclables
Among items recycled school items, paper is the most significant cost-saving
waste reduction. Just think of how much paper a school uses. As a result, paper
makes up 50 to 60 percent of school waste. The advantage to paper is that it
can be either reused or recycled. When paper is used on both sides and fully as
scratch paper or for making copies, school paper costs drop dramatically.
Scrap Paper: used bond paper, used computer paper, old notebooks, old
books, old newspapers, periodicals, other newsprints, cartons and cardboards,
colored (assorted) waste paper etc.
Glass Bottles: beer, softdrinks, catchup, glass cullets (bubog) etc.
Plastics: PET – mineral water bottles, softdrinks, plastic cups, basins,
containers, hard plastic, CD cases etc.
OPERATION/IMPLEMENTATION
Planning
check the amount of garbage generated daily and determine a place to store
recyclables until they are collected;
Implementation
train the people involved with the school recycling (cleaning personnel,
employees, students, for example);
Implementing:
train the people involved with the school recycling: a brief talk with the secretaries
and the cleaning personnel; activities to be developed with the students.
make a periodic review of the school recycling program and disseminate the
results to the school. The results can be disseminated by numbers of cardboard
boxes collected every Wednesday. The results will be shown in tables (graphics)
in the snack bar area and in the classroom for the students follow the collection
up.