Recycling

Recycling Liz, Liz, and Jill met on 11/13: - The food waste contest will begin during the week of Jan. 5 - Liz J. is gathering You Tube videos to show during broadcast to get the students excited about the program. - Thomas was assigned the coffee cans for food waste collection. We also thought that Ms. Montes in the cafeteria may have some too - Thomas will check with her. - Jill will be working with Michael and student council to figure out how they will be involved.
 * 1) Contest (Liz Jackson, Liz Munoz, Sandra, and Jill)
 * Food Waste
 * Charts
 * Prizes
 * Weekly, monthly
 * list ideas here
 * We need to come up with a "thermometer" to track food waste - we could use the poster machine
 * We'll need coffee cans to collect waste - How many?
 * What will we use to weigh the cans?
 * We need to figure out what can be "recycled" and what is garbage
 * How do we get the cans to the compost bins?
 * What incentives and prizes to award the winning class or grade level
 * When are we going to get this started
 * We need to come up with a schedule so we can share this with the students - maybe make a video and show on broadcast?

- Poster to keep track of amount of food wasted (maybe student council can make the posters) - One poster per grade - Axis = Pounds of food/Weeks - Each grade level would be a different color so the students could see on the poster, who wasted the most food by class and by grade.

- A "blurb" in the newsletter will be posted for Dec. and Jan.


 * 1) Composting (Warren, Heather, Fernando, Cathy's husband)
 * Bins
 * Education
 * list ideas here
 * 1) Plants
 * Raised beds
 * Vegetables and herbs
 * Feed the kids
 * list ideas here
 * 1) Green Team (Leslie and Michael)
 * Eason kids every Wed. 2:15-2:30
 * 1) Plastic Glue Recycling (Angie)
 * list ideas here
 * 1) Blue Bag Buddy (Heather and Christina)
 * School-wide recycling the week of Nov. 10-14
 * Each teacher receives a blue bag to recycle and an informational bag for class.
 * Friday, Nov. 14th Blue Bag Buddy will make an appearance at EES
 * Monday, Nov. 17th at 9AM bags will be collected by City of Irving on Willow St.