Welcome to the Green Team website at Elk Plain K-8! 19/20 is our 5th year as a Sustaining Bronze Level Washington Green School.
Accomplishments
100% of Terracycle Points to be Donated! This year Clif Bar has partnered with American Forests ReLeaf Program and will donate all granola bar wrapper points (.01 per wrapper) directly to this organization that rebuilds forests destroyed by wildfire in California. This inspired the Sustainability Committee to try donating all Terracycle points for the 19/20 school year to trustworthy environmental and humanitarian programs that partner with Terracycle. Doing this has a much larger ripple effect than redeeming points for cash. Not only do these very hard to recycle products stay out of the landfill but it only takes a few of them to turn into a gallon of clean water or newly planted trees. And, you get to choose! Vote for your 2 favorites below. Watch the PTA newsletter for donation updates! Christine Link Sustainability Chair |
Data
* Since starting the PTA Sustainability committee and Green Team in 2015/16 we have collected the following difficult to recycle items through our partnership with TerraCycle. 5,277+ cereal bags 12,466 puree pouches 42,675 granola bar wrappers 1,500 personal care items 22,238 drink pouches (discontinued) 60,000+ chip bags (discontinued) * Thanks to 3 of our classroom teachers we recycle at least one full 60 gallon trash bag of rigid plastic that cannot go into curbside recycle every 2 weeks. That's 1,080 gallons per year for a total of 4,000 gallons of plastic (72 bags) that has been recycled since the Green Team started in 15/16! * We have also composted 2.000lbs + 365 gallons of compost since 15/16
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Check out the sustainability plans from our
TerraCycle brigade sponsors!
TerraCycle brigade sponsors!
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