Your Questions About Recycling
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Susan asks…
Free recycling bins for my school?
Is it possible to obtain free recycling bins for my school? I’ve been looking but haven’t had any success.
The Expert answers:
I would call your local garbage collector. In las vegas they will bring recycle bins to your home for free if you ask them, I would imagine that though it’s a lot more output. They would still be willing to support recycling for your school.
Sandy asks…
Where could schools get funds to place recycling bins in cafeterias?
Anything exept for fundraising…
The Expert answers:
I would have the school contact the local recyclers. The recyclers are making money of the recycled goods so they would probably do it for free.
Sharon asks…
What can we do to encourage high school students to recycle pop cans?
We have many pop can bins around the school for students to put them in but they won’t simply because they’re lazy. All the money goes to charity so we’d like to recycle as much as possible. Anyone got any ideas for exciting students to recycle? (Game pitting classes against each other, etc.)
The Expert answers:
You could seperate the recycle bins into four different bins, one for the senior class, the juniors, the sophomores, and the freshman. Each month or so you can see who has collected the most cans, and award them with some kind of prize. Whether it be a pizza party, candy, extra time at lunch, something that will make them want to get involved. Or you could do an individual thing and have students recycle their cans or bottles for raffle tickets. Have a raffle twice a month or whatever the school chooses. Draw 10-15 tickets (more or less depending on how many students there are) and if your tickets drawn you get a prize. Maybe candy, or a movie gift certificate, or fast food gift certificates. Or even better, if teacher’s want to get involved, maybe they would be willing to give out homework passes for the raffle…that would make a high schooler want to get involved. 😉 Best of Luck!
Paul asks…
Spiritually speaking: do you recycle?
So, I’m from West Virginia as many of you know. There, we don’t recycle anything. The only people who recycle are the homeless people who are looking to make a few bucks from the cans and bottles they find in dumpsters. Some schools had recycling bins to throw bottles in, but it was rare.
In Columbus, Ohio, it was pretty much the same. Hardly anyone recycled.
Here in California, everyone recycles. The city provides us with a separate bin similar to our garbage can that we can put recyclables in. It might even be a requirement for all I know. My employer also has designated bins for recyclables and garbage. My poor roommate still digs things out of the garbage once in awhile that I mistakenly put in there because I’m still getting used to this whole recycling thing.
I just think about how much it troubles me that the other places I’ve lived didn’t recycle at all. What’s it like where you live?
The Expert answers:
We care about the environment
Linda asks…
How much would a recylcing bin cost if I live in Tuscola County, Michigan?
I’m looking for a price on recycling bins for my schools science club. I need to purchase 32 of them. My school is in Tuscola county in Michigan. Any ideas how much each recycling bin costs?
The Expert answers:
Depends on the size you are after and how good you want it to look. Lol. Most good shops now sell recycling bins/ containers (over here in the UK) you can usually get one starting around £10 or so. Surely your school would have suppliers that they could by from. That way they will be slightly discouted especially buying in bulk
William asks…
what are some ways to get my school more involved in environment?
im running for environment at my high school environment position and i need some ideas of how to get my school more involved. we already have recycling bins at my school that are great but people also put trash in there which makes it hard to recycle.and i thought of ideas like rewarding students, but that’s as far as i got.
The Expert answers:
Do you have Family & Consumer Science at you school? (once called Home Ec.) They have an organization called FCCLA (Family, Career, Community Leaders of America… Once FHA). They hold competitions in regards to the environment. If you have this organization at your school, you should talk to the teacher. She may have ideas.
Maybe you should make your organization known. Get members, take advantage of the media (school newspaper, school news, announcements, local paper, etc) to get people aware of your program. Make sure everyone from the school faculty, students, to even the community know about your organization…
Tips:
involve the animal shelter
do can competitions
plant trees and flowers around your school
Steven asks…
Fundraising/ involvement ideas for recycling bins at High school? anyone?
Over the summer i started a recycling movement through our high school’s chapter of FCCLA and now I am officer of that project, so I need some fundraising/ donation ideas to get the bins put in place in the high school, and hopefully then on the the lower schools here having FCCLA teach the little kids about recycling. I just can’t think of any ideas yet. So any help or advice on this endeavor would be appreciated, a lot.–P.S. any other advice just on the recycling program itself would help here, the idea’s just only taking off so tips help! thanks–especially student involvement ideas
wow new age man, that’s an awesome idea! i love the music thing, i remember having a concert benefit last year for something similar and i do know some musical friends of mine…the bands did perform very willingly last year to get PR this could be a very good thing! ooh, i’m so excited! oh, hey what do y’all think about the slogan “it’s not easy being green.” with something as an ending tagline like ‘but we do it anyway’or, “we do it for —-” ? oh i’m so excited!
thank you
on another note, a lot of you are saying donations are to be made! and i know to ask small businesses yes, but what about larger ones that may have a little extra weight to throw around, know any that are known for this type of thing?
The Expert answers:
You’re amazing. Really. To see a high school student taking these steps is heartwarming.
Check here for ideas/resources:
http://www.aashe.org/index.php
For you fundraising ideas, you might try to get some of the musicians in your school to throw a Sustainability Benefit. Look to LiveEarth as an example of what can be done:
www.liveearth.org
These concerts connected over 1/3 of the world’s population over a period of 24 hours, and the recycling team that supported these shows had an average of 92% waste stream diversion from landfills.
Check with this company for inspiration/advice. The President and VP are friends of mine, and they would love to know that younger generations are taking up the torch.
Http://www.sevenstarevents.com/
Good luck!
Helen asks…
How do I get free recycling beverage bins for my school in Escondido, California? ?
to go around campus, the city will not provide them and I need them now so I donthave time to apply for a long grant
The Expert answers:
Contact your mayor or city council about this. They are servants for the people in your city! This is their job. Without people or citizens they would not have a job!
John asks…
Anyone a recycling expert?
I’m doing a report on recycling and need someone that is a recycling expert or representative to answer the following questions since all the companies i’ve emailed won’t respond…
1)Why is recycling important?
2)How does recycling positively effect our environment?`
3)How do you encourage people to recycle? How do you attract attention to your cause?
4)Do you design your recycling bins to attract attention?
5)Do you think the placement of recycling bins in schools and workplaces effects how much is collected?
6)Do you think the popularity of recycling will increase or decrease over the next few years?
Thank you for your time.
The Expert answers:
Well, I’m not an expert, but I’m involved in environment since I’m a kid, so yeah.
1) Because it generally reduce the amount of energy involved in the production process since you don’t have extract the resource. It also bring us the resources without we having to extract new ones.
2) It don’t positively effect our environment, it is wrong to say that. But it reduces our impact on the environment because, as I said earlier, we don’t need to extract new resources and we save a little energy in the transformation process.
Well, you got also to take in mind that this is only theory. It’s not recycling that will really reduce the amount of resources extracted, the companies have also to change their production and not just add new production with the recycled products.
3) There is no right way. You just got to talk with people that don’t recycle. Your friends, your family. That’s more a social thing.
4) My company do, but I don’t think that matters really much.
5) Of course. The key is to put recycle bins at the most place people are trowing recycled stuffs. Cuz if the bin is not close to them, they will trow it somewhere else.
6) It depend in what country. Here in Canada, I think we reached almost the maximum of popularization about recycling. The next step is political acting. We got to give time and material to people so they could recycle more easily. Ultimately, I think we couldn’t recycle enough if our system don’t change.
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