Filled to the Brim: Landfills

                              Ah! we have made it to part six in the saga to prevent unwanted waste from entering our landfills by teaching recycling habits to students. This week I find it interesting that students and teachers are working together as teams against waste! In my local area of Anchorage, Alaska the school district has a program where teams can come together get certified and teach their entire school about recycling. On this same website, they list similar information as the EPA such as stopping on a ton of paper waste could save 15-17 trees, and recycling this same among could save 7000 gallons of water. (Bardauskas, 2021). This week I wanted to focus on team efforts to create new and better ideas for recycling.                          For this week to make sense I ...

  Welcome back my earth-loving recyclers. I know last week we focused on the amount of trash that can be recycled in a school. However, this week I wanted to review opposing issues that could hinder a school's recycling program. I found several articles that discussed the pros and cons of recycling in general and I wanted to take this week to focus on the cons associated with recycling in schools. For instance, some people argue that schools in rural areas might find it expensive to find someone to haul the recycled materials away (Bradley, 2012). Another quick note I found is that even though schools have a recycling program, they might not have the manpower or resources to manage the program. A teacher in New York City stated “ For him, on top of teaching multiple other science classes and modules like Astronomy and Astrobiology, being a sustainability coordinator isn’t a top priority ” (McGee, 2019).             It might b...

              Welcome back my fellow recyclers! I assume if you are still with me then you have already contacted your schools in the local area. My goal here is still to raise awareness about the amounts of trash that can be recycled in American school districts. “This week I am to prove that Texas landfills will completely fill up within the next 56 years!” (Take Care of Texas, 2018) I aim to prove “You may end up saving your school money on waste disposal costs. Some school districts have saved thousands of dollars a year by implementing recycling programs.” (Take Care of Texas, 2018). Recycling is a Win/Win situation for all parties involved. Not only does it help with our landfills but also it helps protect our environment as stated in previous blog posts.             Not only should you care based on your values but also you should know its against Texas law to not ...

                 In this week’s blog post I want to focus on putting first things first. I want to take you through how Los Angeles the county is currently leading the way in the recycling efforts I have been discussing in my previous blog posts. On learninggreen.laschools.org they state “​Since 2015 we have focused on sustaining the existing recycling programs in 600+ schools (over 300 schools successfully continue with a full process lunch recycling program), shifting more schools to tray-stacking and milk-pouring as well as establishing food share programs during lunchtime.” (LAUSD, n.d.) This is a prime example of people putting recycling first these schools have gamified the recycling programs in their schools and even have healthy competitions amongst different schools.             As a future educator I hope we can learn from these schools and all the great things they are d...