1. School Sustainability.
There will be a quiz!

2. Recycling Overview
Recycling is gathered in homes and businesses and then placed at the curb or taken to depots for collection.
In the Albany/Corvallis area, materials are taken to a facility where the recycling is baled and made ready for transport to a material recovery facility.
Elsewhere, it may go straight to a material recovery facility.
for a look at how these facilities operate, find SP Recycling (Clackamas, Oregon) on YOUTUBE.
What is accepted is directly related to demand. Materials will be recycled if there is demand for the raw material they are made from.

3. Recycling as a tool to teach sustainability.
Environmental Sciences
Math
Communication
Community/Team Building

4. Environmental Studies:
Why recycle?
According to the US EPA, recycling:
Prevents emission of many greenhouse gases.
Prevents water pollutants.
Saves energy.
Supplies valuable raw materials to industry.
Stimulates the development of greener technologies.
Conserves natural resources.
Reduces the need for new landfills and combustors.
Recycling also helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions that affect global climate. In 2008, the national recycling rate of 33.2 percent (83 million tons recycled) prevented the release of approximately 182 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the air--roughly the amount emitted annually by 33 million cars, or 1.3 quadrillion BTUs, saving energy equivalent to 10.2 billion gallons of gasoline.

5. Math
Recycling provides many opportunities to use math in practical applications.

6. Communication
School recycling is most effective when students communicate the process to one another.
Posters
Classroom Presentations
Video
Facebook
Web Pages
School Newsletters

7. What Gets Recycled & Why?

8. Recycled materials are commodities.
Simply put, what gets recycled is based on supply and demand.
Buying products with recycled content creates demand.
Avoiding hard to recycling items sends a message too.

9. Paper Junk mail Flyers Office Paper Envelopes
Gift Wrap & Cards (no foil)
Post-it-notes
Paper Bags
Newspaper
Cardboard (please cut to fit in cart)
Paperboard
Phone Books
Shredded paper
(loose in a paper bag or cereal box)

10. Plastic Please rinse first.
Plastic Bottles
Plastic Jugs
Plastic Tubs
( yogurt, margarine)
Plastic Jars (peanutbutter)
Nursery Pots & Buckets
(smaller than 5 gallons)
About those chasing arrows! They just tell you what resin group the plastic is made from, not that it will be recycled.

11. Metal Glass Please rinse first. Tin & Aluminum Cans Tins, Aerosol Cans
Clean Foil
Pie Pans
Metal Lids
Glass
Please rinse first.
Glass Bottles
Glass Jars

13. On the Horizon: On the Horizon: Organics Composting Energy Generation
Landfill Mining
Added Materials Recycled
Product Stewardship (paint, electronics)

14. Conclusions: Recycling is only a part of the solution.
Reuse of goods plays a big role.
Waste reduction, buying, getting, having less stuff is perhaps the most important thing we can do.
Your dollars are your voice when purchasing recyclable or non-recyclable items.

15. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.“
Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax