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Love School Recycling?
Thank you
for staying involved with GrowNYC all year long! Whether you learned how to recycle with us, drop your food scraps to compost, frequent your neighborhood Greenmarket, or garden in one of our 100 community gardens - YOU take action to make our city better. This charitable season, we hope you'll
contribute to GrowNYC
in a way that's meaningful to you:
donate
, sign up to be a volunteer, tell others about our work. We thank you for your suppo
rt!
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PS 169, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
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Celebrate Without Waste!
Host a class party without overflowing the trash bin? With a little planning it can happen! Watch our latest video for tips on throwing a Zero Waste class celebration.
Zero Waste Party Tips
- Party Supplies: Use un-coated paper plates that can be composted. Avoid disposable tablecloths as they cannot be recycled or composted. Instead bring a cloth tablecloth or use butcher/craft paper that can go into the compost bin.
- Food: Finger food and whole fruits in peels (bananas, cutie oranges) do not have packaging and do not need plastic utensils to eat
- Drinks: Avoid single-use plastic water bottles and juice pouches. Buy large bottles of juice and use recyclable plastic cups or use individual juice boxes that can be recycled.
- Decorations: Use items collected from nature: pine cones, small rocks that can be painted, leaves, acorns, forced bulbs in the spring, etc. The decorations can change with the season and be returned to the outdoors or compost bin. Crafts made from re-purposed materials also make great decorations. Or use decorations that you save for use year after year. Avoid balloons, streamers, and other single-use disposable items.
- Recycling Station: If your school has organics collection, ask your custodian for a brown bin from the cafeteria to use during the party. You can also collect soiled paper and food in a brown paper bag and take to the cafeteria to place in the brown bins. Make an announcement about the recycling bins at the beginning of the party to remind students and parents where to put all hard plastics, foil, clean paper, and trash.
For more ideas for Zero Waste class parties visit our Pinterest board.
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GREEN TEAMS GROW SCHOOL RECYCLING
Green Team members are the engines behind a good school recycling program. They educate other students and staff, monitor cafeteria and classroom recycling and create a culture of sustainability in the school. Below are some highlights from two of the 40 great Green Teams we have had the pleasure to work with this year. The students and their advisers keep us smiling with their amazing powers to recycle!
PS 107 in Brooklyn launched their Green Team this fall. Applications were received from 54 eager 3rd graders, and so AP/SC Pascale Pradel and 5th grade teacher Mr. Ed decided to make it a monthly rotation of two students from each class. Students are trained to monitor classroom recycling, giving out classroom recycling grades. Next, the team will partner with the art teacher to create bin signage based on the mistakes observed during classroom monitoring.
A. Philip Randolph High School in Manhattan started a Green Team in October. The team is comprised of 20 students and 3 adult advisers. The team meets regularly and works in committees to create a recycling awareness poster campaign, research and write a newsletter, and make upcycled crafts to sell as a fundraiser.
Are you looking to start a Green Team or re-energize an existing team?
Check out our NEW Green Team Guide. It is packed full of activities and linked resources including an application to recruit members, morning announcement scripts, waste audit guide and more!
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ZWS WEBSITE MINI CONTESTS
Two mini contests are now taking place on the
ZWS Website. Post a picture of your Green Team in action for a chance to win. Don't have an account? Signing up is easy.
View our short video for step by step sign up instructions. You will be posting--and maybe winning--in no time!
#TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
Win T-shirts and reusable bags for your class.
To win prizes, you MUST complete steps 1 and 2!
Step 1: Post a picture/video of your cafeteria sorting station. In the caption, tell us what's working and what can be improved. Use the hashtag #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork.
Step 2: Post a group picture/video of your Custodian Engineer OR Principal with members of your Green Team. In the caption, include their response to one of the following questions:
* What is our school's biggest challenge when it comes to recycling?
* How can our Green Team help make your job easier?
* Your own question about recycling!
Post both pictures/videos by January 19th to win t-shirts for your class!
If you interview both your Custodian AND Principal, you can also win reusable 0 x 30 bags for your class!
#AboveAndBeyond
Win a pizza party for your Green Team or class and Zero Waste Schools pencils for your school.
To win prizes, post a picture of recycling efforts in your school that go above and beyond the usual daily routines. Entries due by February 20.
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Manhattan: Advanced Sustainability Coordinator Training
January 11, 2018, 8:30am - 3:00pm
Columbia's Teachers College,
520 West 120th Street, NY
Topic: Integration of Sustainability Concepts into Curriculum in partnership with Teachers College.
Sustainability efforts in your school take a team of people all working toward meaningful change, but it can start with you! Due to the overwhelming response to the introductory trainings, the Office of Sustainability is offering two advanced trainings this year to help schools work towards energy conservation, efficient waste management, and the integration of sustainability into curricula.
Sustainability trainings are open to anyone in your school community. You do NOT have to be the assigned Sustainability Coordinator-any school based staff are welcome!
Register here
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Earn up to 6 CTLE credits!
Space is limited so
REGISTER TODAY
to reserve your spot.
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Josie and the Trouble with Trash Author Visit
Josie and the Trouble with Trash is the third book in the Josie Goes Green series. This series is written by an Assistant Principal at PS 321 (a Zero Waste School in Park Slope), her husband Kenny Bruno, and her daughter Antonia Bruno. Kenny Bruno is doing author visits at schools in NYC. Contact Beth for more information and to schedule.
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Tour Sims Municipal Recycling Center
472 2nd Ave, Brooklyn, NY
February 8th, 5:00-
6:30pm
Join the DOE Office of Sustainability for a tour of
Sims, a state-of-the-art material recovery facility that processes the majority of New York City's MGPC recyclables. You'll learn how New York City's recyclables are sorted and sold as commodities, as well as get a fascinating look into recycling in America's largest city.
This event is FREE but space is limited.
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