Being Green with your School: Learning to Recycle

In my previous posts I have talked about how you can be environmentally friendly in your own home. Well I was thinking if you can successfully be environmentally conscious with your family, why not help your school community become as environmentally aware as yourself. So one way that really ignites the beginning of a school becoming Eco-friendly is to start a simple recycling program. This can be easily done with the help from your classmates and teachers.
First of all to start recycling at your school you should have designated recycling bins. One recycling for paper and another bin for plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and etc. There also needs to be certain places in classroom and around the school campus to put the recycling bins.


As you can see in this picture the recycling bin is blue which is helpful to tell the difference between the trash can and the bin. Also the small blue bins are typically used for paper.



For example at my high school I used these recycling bins in the classrooms and put near the door so that they can be easily located.








In this picture you can tell that there is a clear distinction between the recycling bins used for paper versus a bin used for plastic, glass and aluminum. With this recycling bin it can be put either in a lunch or near the trash cans around the school grounds, so that recycling can be made easy.




Hope these tips  will help you and your classmates make recycling a simple process for your school.
Now remember to always Reduce Reuse Recycle !!!!