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Creating a Sustainable Environmental Education Program for Schools

Support Alameda County schools in waste reduction and recycling through technical assistance, curriculum support, and educational programs. Enable students to practice 4Rs behaviors and influence family beliefs. Conduct waste audits, implement recycling programs, and provide resources to achieve diversion goals.

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Creating a Sustainable Environmental Education Program for Schools

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  1. Creating a Sustainable Environmental Education Program for Schools

  2. The irecycle@school partnership with School Districts in Alameda County • Support District commitment to waste reduction and recycling with: • technical assistance, • curriculum support and • educational enrichment for teachers and students • Provide students with opportunity to practice and apply 4Rs behaviors in everyday life. • Enable students to influencefamily 4rs beliefs and practices.

  3. Technical Assistance to DistrictsConducted by Environmental Science Associates: Kelly Runyan, John Hanscom, Cybele Chang • Annual Waste Audit and “Green Report” • Right-sizing of waste and recycling services • Implementation of food scrap recycling programs • Assistance with franchise negotiations • Presentation of custodial training workshops

  4. Waste Audit and Service Level Projections

  5. Achieving 50% Diversion • Bin in every classroom, office, common space • Clear signage at recycling and waste containers • On-site “Champion” • Carefully cultivated “Culture of 4Rs” • Integration of 4Rs into classroom curriculum • School assemblies, waste-free lunch, “trash-pile,” “bring- in-your-old-coat-for-Goodwill” type events • Leadership (bin monitoring) by older classroom grades, student council, “ecology club” • Student participation in collection efforts

  6. Achieving 75% Diversion • Implementation of food scrap recycling • Attention to purchasing, reuse and recycling of materials • E-waste • Furniture • Textbooks

  7. Estimated Resources Saved

  8. Assumptions for Resource Savings Estimates:

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