School Recycling Program
Highlandtown #237’s Green Team has conducted a once a week student run school recycling program over the past two school years, collecting the school’s recycling and promoting the value of recycling through projects throughout the school. Examples of these projects include:
- Collecting and compiling recycling and ensuring bins are placed throughout the school.
- A Green Team Bulletin Board promoting the importance of recycling in the community.
- Classroom presentations to 4 classrooms across 2 grade levels, aimed at increasing student and staff compliance with the recycling program in the school and changing behaviors.
Student community and schoolyard trash collection efforts
The Highlandtown #237 Green Team has consistently engaged in schoolyard and community trash collection efforts over the course of the past two years, in an effort to instill a spirit of community pride, as well as to regularly discuss the value of taking care of the common spaces to make everyone’s local environment a more welcoming and clean space. These collection efforts took place on the following days:
- October 6th, 2015: Students took 30 minutes at the end of one of the Audubon Garden preparatory days to scour the schoolyard for trash. Students wore gloves and collected the trash in teams.
- December 3rd, 2015: Students took advantage of the warm weather in early winter and cleaned out the garden from trash and debris. Students also weeded the garden and learned what is considered a weed versus the native plants that were planted.