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Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle
Level Three: Creating or Improving Policies
To receive the Level Three award for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,
your Green Flag Team must:
(If you have an existing IPM program in your school, skip
to #4)
1. Design a School Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Plan:
- Talk with the Green Flag Program Coordinator to review your level
two survey and discuss how you can design an RRR Plan.
- Meet with school administrators and the facilities director to make
a list of how to develop a RRR program.
2. Present your ideas to decision makers:
- Make written recommendations to school decision makers about school
RRR practices.
- Prepare to make a presentation to decision-makers. Research the issue,
and make notes to help you explain the need for creating or improving
RRR programs at your school. Prepare materials to give to decision-makers,
and a letter explaining the changes that you want to see in school policy
and purchasing to improve the situation.
- Make a presentation to decision makers, such as the principal, school
board, or PTA. In order to make sure your case is well heard, bring
along many people that support you and your team. At the end of the
meeting, present your written recommendations, and thank them for meeting
with you.
- Perform and document one classroom
activity.
3. Implement your Program:
- Working with the maintenance staff and school administrators,develop
and implement a program with the goals of:
- Recycling all paper.
- Reusing paper by collecting scrap paper and encouraging people
print on both sides.
- Replacing disposable products with a reusable ones.
- Holding a locker clean out day, where items normally disposed
of could be recycled or donated.
- Purchasing recycled-content products. Talk with the purchasing
department to see what your school can buy. See the Resource
Packet for recycled-content products.
- Composting yard waste from the school grounds
- Composting food scraps from lunch
- Pass the policy and begin implementation.
- Submit your RRR Policy to the Green
Flag Program Coordinator.
- Complete one of the classroom
activities.
OR:
4. Improving existing RRR practices:
- If your school already has a RRR program that fulfills the criteria
described above, improve your school’s program by accomplishing one
of the following steps:
- Recycle, reuse or reduce one additional type of material (e.g.,
aluminum & glass products, plastic, phone books, computer parts,
printer cartridges etc.). In some school districts, implementing
recycling programs might be difficult (particularly for the younger
ages). See the classroom
activities for suggestions and additional activities that could
improve your program.
- Standardize waste audits at your school so that they occur at
least every two months.
- Join a recycling rewards program that offers payments for the
return of computer accessories such as printer cartridges and computers.
- Set up a community-recycling program where you provide recycle
for a business or organization outside your school.
- Create a handbook or a written RRR policy for the school to use.
- Propose your own idea to the RRR mentor and program coordinator.
- Complete one of the classroom
activities.
- Submit your improvements to the RRR Program to the Green
Flag Program Coordinator.
5. Rewards for Level Three:
- The patch for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to add to your Flag.
- A certificate of acheivement from the CHEJ Green Flag School Program.
- A description of the activities of your Green Flag team will be posted
on the Green Flag website.
Track Your
Progress
The "Track Your Progress" charts are a new feature of the Green Flag
School Program. The progress sheet is an online tracking page which lists
each step in the program, and includes a space for the user to enter their
activity for that step. They may do this online, hit enter once they have
finished, and it is then sent to us to keep in your file. If you prefer,
you may print out the progress sheets, fill them in by hand, and send
them in to the Green Flag School Coordinator. We hope that this will help
you document your teams progress and see how many steps you have to go
until you win your Green Flag Patch. Check it out by clicking on Track
Your Progress!
Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle Resources
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