BES Recycling Committee & The Green
Club The BES Recycling Committee welcomes input from parents and guardians. If you are interested attending a BES Recycling Committee meeting, please contact Mrs. Sarausky. psarausky@sau80.org Belmont Elementary
School has a Recycling Committee composed of staff
members invested in bringing pre-cycling, reducing waste, reusing, and
recycling awareness to all B.E.S. students. In 2008, our school won a bronze medal,and in 2009, our school won a silver medal based on our recycling initiatives. In 2010, our school was recognized as Recycling School of the Year for the State of NH. In 2011,Mrs. Sarausky was awarded the Recycling Teacher of the Year. These medals and awards were
presented by the Northeast Resource Recovery Association. Belmont Elementary
School is a member of their School Recycling Club.
The Green Club is
a co-curricular program for students. Green Club members promote recycling
activities during the year at B.E.S.
Since 2008,
B.E.S. has…
- had a recycling dumpster placed on school grounds
- purchased recycling bins for each classroom
- trained students HOW and WHAT to recycle in the dumpster
- had a school-wide program to encourage using both sides of paper
- started having school announcements emailed to staff
- recycled Christmas cards to be used next year as writing prompts
- had school-wide contests to encourage recycling awareness
- had contests and programs that involved students AND their
families
- designed bi-monthly bulletin boards that showed contest or program
results
- sold compost bins, kitchen pails, and rain barrels to community
- had a representative attend the NRRA Recycling Conference
- we continued all of the above programs and made them even better
- recycled Tropicana plastic bottles to help save an area in the
rainforest
- started recycling juice pouches with Terracycle (1 or 2 cents
earned for each juice pouch
- collected) Terracycle
uses the pouches to make backpacks, pencil cases, and lunch bags
- used last year’s Christmas cards as writing prompts for creative
writing stories
- all classrooms weighed their recycling for two weeks
- BEST brought in BJ Hickman, a magician
with a recycling focus
- sponsored a school-wide,anti-bullying assembly
- hosted contests to promote recycling throughout the school
- designed a recycling logo for BES
Web
Links of Interest
National
Resource Recovery Association
http://www.nrra.net
Terracycle - See what this company can do with recycled items…
http://www.terracycle.net
To view the BES Recycling Brochure, click on the file below. |