Grownyc FACULTY PRESENTATION: NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECYCLING CHAMPIONS PROGRAM grownyc.org/recyclingchampions

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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



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.


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.


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



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



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



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!

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