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Dryden Elementary School Green Team 2019-2020 Trip to T ompkins County Solid Waste - reviewed what can be recycled -toured the facility Daily Volunteer Work in the Cafeteria -keep the compost free of contaminants -sort the trash from the


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Dryden Elementary School Green Team

2019-2020

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Trip to T

  • mpkins

County Solid Waste

  • reviewed what can be

recycled

  • toured the facility
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Daily Volunteer Work in the Cafeteria

  • keep the compost free of

contaminants

  • sort the trash from the

recycling

  • find additional recyclables

for T erraCycle

  • educate students
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Visited Cornell Cooperative Extension

  • Learned what makes

compost and the importance

  • f composting
  • Learned about difgerent

ways to compost

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Volunteered at Secret Santa Workshop

  • helped kids make crafts and

art with reused materials

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Monthly Meetings Before School

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alk about issues and concerns from the cafeteria

  • Plan new ideas to help

promote sustainability in the DES community

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New Initiatives to Reduce Waste this Year:

  • Compost bins in 14

classrooms

  • Reduce waste daily with

paper towels and food scraps

  • Promote consistency with

the cafeteria

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T erraCycle Brigades

  • free “collections” sent to

T erraCycle to be recycled

  • find in trash and sort
  • earn points to be redeemed

for school or causes

  • waste reduction in school

cafeteria trash

T erraCycle Recycling Center in the cafeteria

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Plastic Bag recycling

  • cannot be recycled with
  • ther plastics
  • collected and brought for

in-store drop ofg

  • includes ziploc and other

plastic bags

  • large collection each week

from the cafeteria

Plastic bags collected from the trash in 2 weeks

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Marker Recycling

  • Dry markers collected

from classrooms schoolwide (saved from the trash)

  • Sent to Crayola to be

recycled and reused

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Biodegradable Gloves

  • brainstormed ways to

reduce the Green T eam’s disposable glove waste stream

  • found biodegradable gloves

to purchase to replace what has been used in the past

  • looking to share information

with other people in the school who wear disposable gloves

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Next Step:

  • Reduce more landfill

trash from the DES Cafeteria

The DES cafeteria currently uses 4 bins for recycling,and 4 for trash

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Focus on re-use in the cafeteria:

  • reusable trays
  • washable silverware
  • much less trash waste
  • less money for disposables

and trash removal

  • most school districts in our

area already use reusable (Dryden is the only district using styrofoam trays)

Styrofoam trays fill 2 large trash bags daily in the DES cafeteria

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Have less single use packaging items for food from the cafeteria

  • only #1, 2, 5 plastics
  • challenging items for

recycling: straws, #6 plastic juice, fruit and ice cream cups, styrofoam bowls, chip bags and plastic packaging (bagels, utensils, pancakes)

The only recyclable item on this tray is the milk carton

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Dryden Central School District:

Educate and empower each learner to achieve excellence and build a better world. “We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.”

  • Julia Butterfly Hill