1st prize crysalis project
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This document provides tips for reducing waste at school by recycling everyday items like cans and bottles, using reusable mugs and glasses instead of disposable cups, bringing lunch and snacks from home, and setting up paper recycling bins in classrooms. Changing habits takes effort but becomes routine, and using reusable items and recycling paper significantly reduces waste.
1st prize crysalis project
- 3. Recycle Change your drinking habits Use mugs and glasses Bring lunch and snacks Recycle paper
- 4. Begin with everyday items such as aluminum cans and bottles. Don’t throw away cans and bottles. The school has to provide recycling container. Put them in that recycling container.
- 5. Changing any habit takes thought and effort. But the new habit quickly takes root, if you will just give it a chance. Rather than drinking bottled water, use the school’s fountain. Forget the nonsense you hear about drinking fountains being source of germs.
- 6. Use a mug for your hot beverages. Eliminating Styrofoam cups and containers for hot beverages will reduce non-degradable waste which has to be carted off to land fills. Coffee grounds and tea bags can go in the compost heap. Use a glass for cold beverages such as lemonade, iced tea and water.
- 7. Make your own lunch and packing snacks can be fun. It does take some planning and effort, but the payoff is eating healthy and not creating more container waste. If you pack a plant based lunch, you will do even more to reduce global warming. Keeping a container of snacks such as nuts and raisins in your desk is also much more economical than purchasing the packaged snacks from a vending machine.
- 8. We waste enormous amount of paper in our homes, schools and business. Keep a container for sheets of waste paper in the classroom. Encourage your students to use both sides of a sheet of paper.