NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL RECYCLING CHAMPIONS PROGRAM

P.S. 151 FACULTY RECYCLING WORKSHOP We Need Your Leadership!

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   NYC Dept. of Sanitation – Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling  Free Resources and technical support  Green Schools Alliance  Annual Resource Fair & Green Cup Challenge  The Impact of 1,600 Schools Acting Together What support do NYC schools have? Better Earth Club HSCTEA, Queens

 First Annual Citywide Sustainability Coordinator Training May/June 2011  Annual Mandatory Recycling Training in August 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, Librarian School for International Studies, Brooklyn

Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda  Support for NYC Schools  Why Recycle?  What to Recycle  Recycling Set Ups & Tips  Next Steps

Know Your City Why does recycling matter? NYC residents generate 64,000 tons of waste every week The equivalent of 5,333 collection trucks full of waste Mayor Bloomberg’s landmark 2006 Solid Waste-Management Plan What are student thoughts on litter, asthma, traffic, and noise?

A School’s Impact Where can schools improve? Every year, NYC residents throw out over 400,000 tons of recyclable paper That’s enough paper to fill the Empire State Building What reduction and reuse practices can be incorporated into your everyday classroom activities?

Making Connections in Everyday Life Where does our waste go? Exporting municipal trash to other communities cost NYC $300 million in 2008 Pennsylvania, Ohio Virginia South Carolina NYC recycling supports local jobs, the majority of recycling is processed in : Staten Island New Jersey Brooklyn

Recycling Connections in the City What can I tell students? Helps students become responsible citizens Green jobs and careers for your students Contribute to the stream of recycled material NYC schools and residents are required by law to recycle

Recycling Connections – The Big Picture What can I tell students? Conserve vital natural resources Reduce contributions to landfills and incinerators Save energy

Recycling Milk & Juice Cartons in the Cafeteria What is the conservation impact of 500 students?  Recycling milk and juice cartons for one school year saves:  170,561 sheets of paper  14 mature trees  5,970 gallons of water  417 full trash bags of waste storage/ transportation space M.S. 113, 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, Student The Academy of Urban Planning, Brooklyn “My peers and I started an environmental group in our school. We go on educational trips learning about the problems with our environment and how to fix them. I feel that educating people about what is going on will 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

What to Recycle? Keep these two streams of recyclables separate from trash! If you can rip it, you can recycle it. Staples are fine Loose/construction paper, notebooks, cardboard, empty pizza boxes, soft cover books, magazines, envelopes, shredded paper, etc. Please, no hardbound book covers, soiled paper: towels, napkins, plates, cups Empty bottles, cans, and jugs, only Empty beverage cartons; milk and juice containers If it’s mostly metal! Aluminum foil and trays, bottle caps, scissors, paper clips, etc. MIXED PAPERMETAL, GLASS, PLASTIC

Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda  Support for NYC Schools  Why Recycle?  What to Recycle  Recycling Set Ups & Tips  Next Steps

Find Ways to Reduce, Start a Reuse Program A majority of school’s waste is recyclable  Reuse begins with faculty  Incorporating practices into the classroom  Reuse bin by all copiers and printers  Encourage digitization  Art projects and fundraisers  Materials for the Arts  Electronic Waste Muscota New School, Manhattan Facing History High School, Manhattan

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 Basics How 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, Brooklyn Computer Lab

Faculty Recycling Workshop Agenda  Support for NYC Schools  Why Recycle?  What to Recycle  Recycling Set Ups & Tips  Next Steps

Inspire and Lead By Example What are our next steps?  “We are not building this country of ours for a day, it is to last through the ages” – Theodore Roosevelt