Dumpster Diving - The Results!

We had a great time at our first green club meeting of 2009 learning how to green our lunch. The kids learned how NOT to pack a lunch from Wendy Wasteful and how to pack a lunch from Go Green George. Then we talked about how 16 bags per day (almost 3,000 bags per year) of cafeteria trash are landfilled from our school alone! We talked about how to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We went outside and looked through a bag of cafeteria trash and found lots and lots of trays, some recyclables, chip bags, milk cartons and some untouched food. We talked about how we could reuse the black trays, how to get the kids to recycle better inside the lunchroom, what to do with those chip bags and if we could ever use washable trays again.

I still would like to see us try and use washable trays for one day (maybe during Earth Day). Don't you think the kids should experience a nostalgic moment like taking their tray to the window? One possibility to make this happen would be for parents volunteers to wash the trays that day.

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Fall Festival Recap

The Woolridge Elementary School Green Club was active at this year's Fall Festival. Parent volunteers sold more of our popular reusable grocery bags. Thank you to those that purchased bags and helped support our club. Send us an e-mail or leave a comment on the blog letting us know how you're enjoying your bags.

The Fall Festival was also the first event that the Green Club has provided recycle bins. I was at the event from 6:00 - 7:00 and saw numerous people using the bins. It proves the point that people will recycle if the facilities are made available to them. I didn't notice much trash mixed in with recyclables either. Most of the trash was from the juice pouches being sold at the event. Thanks to everyone for recycling. Be on the lookout for the recycle bins at future Woolridge events such as the Spring Carnival.

A special "thank you" to the following parent and teacher volunteers who helped us out last night. My apologies if I left anyone out.

• Kathie Smith
• Sophie Lanniel
• Tammy Newman
• Lee Ann Tragle
• Kim Owens
• Don Huff
• Deborah Pinkston
• Raye McKissick

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Volunteer Sign Up Sheet: Juice Pouch Brigade Cleanup Teams

Woolridge Elementary School participates in TerraCycle's Juice Pouch Brigade Program. The Green Club earns 2 cents for every juice pouch the school ships to TerraCycle (shipping costs are covered by TerraCycle). TerraCycle turns these juice pouches into backpacks and other neat school supplies. To date, we have recycled close to 1,000 juice pouches.

In order to make this program successful, volunteers are needed to rinse out the juice pouches prior to shipment. If you are interested in volunteering, please e-mail Jay Yeman at gogreenwoolridge@gmail.com. Please include your name and the date you wish to volunteer.

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