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FACULTY PRESENTATION: NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLSRECYCLING CHAMPIONS PROGRAM
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Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda
• Support for NYC Schools• Why Recycle?• What to Recycle • Recycling Set Ups & Tips• Next Steps
The NYC DOE Sustainability Initiative Sustainability Coordinators in every school www.Schools.Nyc.Gov/Sustainability
NYC Dept. of Sanitation – Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling Free Resources and technical support
GrowNYC’s Recycling Champions Program Offers schools assistance for recycling
through presentations and assemblies.
The Impact of 1,800 Schools Acting Together
What support do NYC schools have?
• Annual Citywide Sustainability Coordinator Trainings
• Annual Mandatory Recycling Training for Custodian Engineers from all five boroughs
• Local Law 41– NYC’s Recycling Law
• Chancellor’s Regulation A-850
What is the NYC DOE and City Doing?
Working to make recycling a part of school culture
Judy O’Brien, LibrarianSchool for International Studies, Brooklyn
Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda
• Support for NYC Schools• Why Recycle?• What to Recycle • Recycling Set Ups & Tips• Next Steps
The BIG PictureRecycling Is a Part of Sustainability
“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.”
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Know your CityRecycling is a Part of Waste Management
New Yorkers generate 64,000 tons of waste every week
the equivalent of 5,333 collection trucks
Exporting waste to other communities
cost NYC $300 million in 2008.
Know Your CityWhy does recycling matter?
The PAPER trail
Every year, New Yorkers throw away over 400,000 tons of recyclable paper.
That’s enough to fill up the Empire State Building!
If NYC recycled all of our steel we could build 9 new Statues of Liberty each week.
720 recyclable aluminum cans are trashed every minute in New York.
New Yorkers trash 1,579,600 pounds of plastic bottles and jugs every week.
MGP: Metal, Glass, Plastics, Cartons
A School’s ImpactWhere can schools improve?
What reduction and reuse practices can be
incorporated into your everyday classroom
activities?
•NYC DOE student population: 1.3 million in 1,800 schools
•A large portion of school waste is recyclable, more so than residential waste
•Nearly ¼ of schools’ waste is comprised of recyclable paper.
• It’s part of being responsible Citizens • Green Jobs- THE FUTURE• Support the local economy, jobs, and
industry
• Conserve natural resources• Reduce contributions to landfills• Use less energy, burn less fossil fuels • Cleaner air & water
Recycling Connections in the CityWhat can I tell students?
Positive Impact of Recycling in Schools
Creates a trend and habit that students can then take to their homes.
Creates an organized waste disposal routine.
Positive Impact of Recycling in Schools
Reduces clean up for staff by reducing litter.
Recycling milk and juice cartons for one school year saves:
170,561 sheets of paper
14 mature trees 5,970 gallons of water
Offers opportunity for
students to take a leadership
and/or mentoring role by educating
their peers.
Positive Impact of Recycling in Schools
PS 179 Brooklyn
Why School Recycling?Don’t take it from us, just ask the students!
“What I learned about recycling is that it’s something very helpful to our environment. This whole project has changed the way I look at the planet. I realized that this is our only home and we have to take care of it.”
- Heidy Benitez, StudentThe Academy of Urban Planning, Brooklyn
“My peers and I started an environmentalgroup in our school. We go on educationaltrips learning about the problems with ourenvironment and how to fix them. I feel thateducating people about what is going onwill make them want to change.”
- Jemima Osae-Asante, PlaNYC 2.0
Jemima Osae-Asante, Student Facing History High School, Manhattan
Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda
• Support for NYC Schools• Why Recycle?• What to Recycle • Recycling Set Ups & Tips• Next Steps
MIXED PAPER METAL ,GLASS, PLASTICS, CARTONS
*Labeled paper bins required for classrooms and offices.
*Labeled bins required for hallways and cafeteria.
(optional in classroom and offices)
What to Recycle?Keep these two streams of recyclables separate from trash!
SORT IT OUTWhat goes where in NYC Recycling
If you can rip it, you can recycle it.
– Loose/construction paper, notebooks, cardboard, empty pizza boxes, soft cover books, post-its, magazines, envelopes, shredded paper, etc. *staples are fine
MIXED PAPER
Please, no hardbound book covers, soiled paper: towels, napkins, plates,
cups
METAL, GLASS, PLASTIC, CARTONS
All hard plastics are recyclable
Empty milk and juice cartons
If it’s mostly metal!Aluminum foil and trays, bottlecaps, scissors, paper clips, etc.
Foam- Bags-Film, Vinyl Wrappers
Pouches
Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda
• Support for NYC Schools• Why Recycle?• What to Recycle • Recycling Set Ups & Tips• Next Steps
Practice all 3Rs: Start with Reduce& Reuse
• Encourage digitization
• Promote resuse practices in the classroom by having a ‘scrap’ paper stack
• Reuse materials creatively, through art projects and fundraisers– Materials for the Arts
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Recycling Basics What should my classroom look like?
• Recycling bins should exist anywhere there is a trash bin
• Never use a recycling bin for trash
• Keep bins together and in the same place every day• Consistency helps to develop good habits
• Make sure bins are labeled on and above bins
Recycling BasicsHow to maintain student habits?
• Recycling is a school expectation and a classroom rule
• Be conscious of your own habits, students will take notice
• Recycling has a big impact, students can practice it everyday
• Thank you for recycling!
M.S. 113, BrooklynComputer Lab
Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda
• Support for NYC Schools• Why Recycle?• What to Recycle • Recycling Set Ups & Tips• Next Steps
Provide Instructional Demonstrationsto your students
Student / Staff Handouts
Morning Announcements
Next Steps: Spreading the Word
Next Steps: Make Recycling Stand Out
(& Engage students in the Process!)
PS29 Brooklyn
Students at PS30 Staten Island hold a paper bin decorating
contest
Next Steps: Curriculum Integration
Recycling essays
Math /Science applications
Next Steps: Start or Join a Green Team
You don’t have to be the Sustainability Coordinator to be part of a Green Team. Ask Ray Pultinas, Sustainability Coordinator of Murry Bergtraum school in Manhattan. There are 4
teachers and counting in the Green Team.
Look for opportunities to partner with other grades/ groups with recycling: Art Club, Robotics Team, etc.
Next Steps: Engage Other Groups
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IS 227 – Louis Armstrong M.S. Queens
A bin that goes ‘moo’ when milk cartons get
recycled!
THANK YOU FOR RECYCLING!