Comments on: How can students become more green in school? http://thenewsbase.com/2009/07/how-can-students-become-more-green-in-school/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:58:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: carnaby_fudge http://thenewsbase.com/2009/07/how-can-students-become-more-green-in-school/comment-page-1/#comment-8132 carnaby_fudge Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:08:35 +0000 http://thenewsbase.com/?p=1510#comment-8132 start a recycling program at your school. paper is an easy one. teaches and students print millions of sheets of paper every year just at one school and most of it ends up in the trash. so recycle instead of throwing it away and encourage teachers to not make handouts for everyone in the class if possible. instead put the assignment on an overhead and have students copy it into a notebook they are already using. contact your local paper recycler. many of them will provide a dumpster where you can throw recycled paper and they will pick it up for you periodically and give you (meaning your school) the money from recycling it. your school district may already have something like this in place. put a little box in each teacher's room and ask them to recycle whenever possible. i'm willing to bet your school has vending machines. all those plastic bottles from the vending machines usually end up in the trash. they can be recycled as well. if your school district doesn't have a program to recycle plastic collect it yourself or among several students and teachers and take it to a local recycler whenever necessary. start a recycling program at your school. paper is an easy one. teaches and students print millions of sheets of paper every year just at one school and most of it ends up in the trash. so recycle instead of throwing it away and encourage teachers to not make handouts for everyone in the class if possible. instead put the assignment on an overhead and have students copy it into a notebook they are already using. contact your local paper recycler. many of them will provide a dumpster where you can throw recycled paper and they will pick it up for you periodically and give you (meaning your school) the money from recycling it. your school district may already have something like this in place. put a little box in each teacher’s room and ask them to recycle whenever possible.
i’m willing to bet your school has vending machines. all those plastic bottles from the vending machines usually end up in the trash. they can be recycled as well. if your school district doesn’t have a program to recycle plastic collect it yourself or among several students and teachers and take it to a local recycler whenever necessary.

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]]> By: bonlwick http://thenewsbase.com/2009/07/how-can-students-become-more-green-in-school/comment-page-1/#comment-8133 bonlwick Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:08:35 +0000 http://thenewsbase.com/?p=1510#comment-8133 They can write on both sides of the paper, recycle paper, and ride their bikes to school. They can write on both sides of the paper, recycle paper, and ride their bikes to school.

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