The resources below can be used to help start a Service Learning Project at your school. If your school received a grant from Inside the Outdoors for Project Zero Waste, please note audit deadlines below.
Information for Project Zero Waste
Welcome to Your Project - also included in your binder
Project Ideas
Vocabulary
Project Zero Waste Checklist - also included in your binder
Goals and Connecting to Curriculum - also included in your binder
Timeline for your Project - also included in your binder
End of Project Report (Year 3) - coming soon
School Waste Audit - These documents should be returned by mail/fax/online when completed by the school. Preliminary data should be submitted by
February 1, 2021.
Home Waste Audits (coming soon)
Home Waste Audit
Evaluación sobre la Basura Casera
Kiêm Kê Rac Nha
General Waste Reduction Curriculum/Activities
School Yard Cleanup - California Coastal Commission Resources
EPA Waste Reduction Model (WARM) - This program has many resources and can help track and report greenhouse gas emission reduction.
More information...
EPA - Teacher and Student Resources
Environmental Education for Kids
Live Litter Free Curriculum
Interactive Internet Games, Challenges, and Activities
Recycle City - Students see how people’s trash affects a city, learn how recycling can save a city money, and where waste goes.
Recycle Rex Activities
CalRecycle Instructional Materials
Recycling Information
Educational Materials and Free Recycling Bins - www.bottlesandcans.com or call 916-322-1832
Marker Recycling -
Crayola ColorCycle
Crayon Recycling -
The Crayon Initiative
Recycling Center Search Engines
Waste Free OC - provides a resource page for information on reducing, reusing and recycling.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Recycling Rex - California Department of Conservation
Recycling Revolution - information on recycling and history of recycling.
Recycling Bins - Retailers of containers, gloves, and scales
Recycle printer cartridges and cell phones with
Planet Green
E-Waste Recycling - Provides a search engine which will find a responsible E-Waste hauler.
Waste reduction Posters and Stickers - from Calrecycle
Free Recycling and earth symbol clip art
Rot (Composting)
Food scrap management -
More information...
Composting Methods
List of compost bin suppliers
The Worm Guide - Vermicomposting for Teachers
Vermipro -
www.ENRECOS.com or 714-647-1275
Armstrong Gardens
Repurpose
Terracycle takes items that would otherwise go into a landfill and makes them into something useful. Your school can join a brigade, starting collecting, send items in to Terracycle with pre-paid shipping labels, and earn money for every item sent to Terracycle.
www.terracycle.net
Use items that would go to the landfill to make crafts, visit our
Repurposed Crafts!
Waste Free Lunch/Waste Reduction Programs
State Assembly Bill AB1826 requires the reduction of organic waste. Here are some suggestions of ways you can help reduce waste on campus.
State Guidance for Donating Leftover Food
Turning Leftovers into Meals
School Waste Reduction - Information on the state laws and what schools can do to reduce waste
Have a Waste Free Lunch at your school!
EPA - Pack a Waste Free Lunch
Waste Not OC
Love Food Not Waste - see half way down page
Food Share Table
Waste Companies Serving Orange County
Below are a list of common waste companies in Orange County as well as some specific contacts. Contact your waste disposal company for more information about where your waste goes and how they manage waste from school sites.
CR&R - Will provide an on site bin to collect bottles and cans.
Costa Mesa Sanitary District
Provide free recycling and composting presentations for schools in Costa Mesa.
Nabila Guzman, Management Analyst - 949.645.8400 ext. 230
Republic Disposal
www.republicservices.com
WARE Disposal
info@waredisposal.com
www.waredisposal.com
877-714-WARE
Waste Management provides free education programs that can be brought to your classroom. You can also call to set-up a tour of one of their material recovery facilities.
www.wm.com
714-480-2355
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