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Recycling at School
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Recycling at School
The Portage County Solid Waste Recycling District provides additional help for recycling at school; found on this page. If you are a parent, student, teacher, or school administrator who is recycling-conscious, then we can help you take the necessary steps to either set-up a school recycling program or provide you with information on different recycling fundraisers.
Steps to Set-Up a School Recycling Program
Everyone, from principals, custodians, and teachers to students and parents, has an important role and is responsible to ensure that the school is doing what it can to keep up with their recycling! With that said, there are three phases that are crucial to each member in order to implement a successful school recycle program; development, implementation, and improvement.
Phase One – Develop Your Program
- Familiarize yourself with the current program in place, if any
- Find out what waste can be recycled and approximate how much of that your school generates
- Search for a recycling provider on our site
- Get your school involved and designate a recycling coordinator
Phase Two – Implement Your Program
- Create a guide for recycling at your school
- Acquire and situate recycling bins
Phase Three – Improve Your Program
- Inform everyone of the program then launch it!
- Monitor the recycling
- Promote the program
- Evaluate what works and what doesn’t; improve it from there
Fundraisers and Help to Support Recycling
Want to earn some cash and reduce your trash? Schools can participate in various recycling programs in order to fund raise and collect money for their school while simultaneously saving the planet! Below is a linked list of special materials and their respective retrievers to help with your school recycling needs.
- Abitibi’s Paper Retriever Program
- Contact the number on a local recycle bin to have your schools mixed paper, cardboard, and phonebooks recycled
- River Valley Paper Recycling Program
- Contact the number for the location nearest to you to recycle your schools cardboard, mixed paper, phonebooks, and hard and soft bound books
- TerraCycle Collection Bridgades
- This company collects and recycles various items from Drink Pouches and Snack Bags to Writing Instruments
- Crayons
- Ship your crayons following this websites instructions
- Cans to Cash
- Collect cans and take them to a local scrap metal dealer for money
- Six-pack Rings
- Your six-pack rings can be recycled with thee Hi-cone company
- Ink/Toner Empties & Small Electronics
- Office Depot gives gift cards when you send them empty cartridges and small electronics