Rather than buying gift wrap, which may end up in the garbage, try these wrapping paper alternatives
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store-bought, disposable items.
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Each year, we honor individuals, communities, schools, and nonprofit organizations that go above and beyond to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Our 2016 Annual Awards program was hosted at the Centennial Barn in Wyoming where we recognized the following education-based recycling efforts:
- St. Teresa of Avila received the Outstanding School Recycling Program award for expanding their recycling beyond their classrooms to staff offices, the cafeteria, kitchen, gym, and the adjoining parish hall.
- Patrick J. Ormond, a teacher at Amity Elementary, was named the Outstanding Recycling Educator. Mr. Ormond started the school's recycling program, its students' green team, and most recently, a food sharing table in the cafeteria that allows students to trade food items they may not wish to eat themselves. Any food items remaining at the end of lunch are donated to a local food pantry.
- Daymajai Rogers, a fifth grader at Winton Preparatory Academy, received the Student Recycler of the Year award. Daymajai helps coordinate his school's recycling program and was nominated by his teacher because he goes above and beyond expectations by volunteering to recycle after breakfast every day. Daymajai is committed to recycling and plans to train next year's Green Team recyclers.
Congratulations and thank you for all you do! To learn about all of the recycling awardees, visit our Facebook photo album.
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Do you have students on the USDA Child Nutrition Program (free and reduced lunch) who are required to take items they probably won't eat? If so, your school could set up an Offer Versus Serve (OVS) cafeteria. Under
OVS guidelines, students are able to make some food choices, including choosing to not take a milk. Share this information with your principal and food service personnel, or institute the help of your PTA to further reduce food waste in your school's cafeteria.
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More online holiday shopping means more shipping boxes - making December a great month to remind your school community to recycle cardboard. Print and hang
this cardboard recycling poster around your school and share the following facts during announcements and in newsletters:
- Cardboard is made from trees.
- Over 90% of all products shipped in the U.S. are shipped in corrugated cardboard boxes. (Source: Recycle Across America)
- Recycling cardboard only takes 75% of the energy needed to make new cardboard. (Source: Recycle Across America)
- Reusing a cardboard box saves even more resources than recycling.
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