MODULE 7 Sharpen the Saw
Welcome back recycling advocates! This is our seventh iteration of promoting recycling in schools to prevent unnecessary waste from entering landfills. This week it is interesting to note that its “estimated 24% of school waste could be recycled paper and 50 % could be composted food waste.” (Lober, 2021). This week’s focus is on how to get our schools to a high level of recycling by reflecting on and building the recycling schools of the future. There are several guides and resources out there like the one from The National Wildlife Federation that is in the resources below (EPA, 2020). Its important to note that last year the United States celebrated its 50 th Anniversary of Earth day where around 20 million people worked together to recycle on behalf of mother earth! (Nature, 2020) We have come so far since the 1970s where recycling first started its real movement. On bctv.org they state “ As the environmental movement of the 1970s built momentum, so too did recycling. In 1...