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Success Story: Aviation High School
School District: Highline
School Location: Des Moines
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: June 2009
Level One of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2011
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Aviation High increased its recycling rate from 28 percent to 35 percent as a result of a school-wide program that includes recycling in classrooms, offices, hallways and lunchroom.
- Aviation custodians and teachers implemented a reliable recycling collection system. Formalizing this system for the first time increased the consistency of classroom and hallway recycling collection.
- Aviation placed recycling containers in several classrooms and work spaces that previously only had garbage cans.
- Aviation’s Ecology Club placed recycling stickers listing what can and can’t be recycled on recycling containers throughout the school.
- To promote recycling, student leaders and the Ecology Club conducted multiple outreach and education projects, including classroom presentations, a school-wide assembly, staff meeting presentations, posters, and recycling audits of every classroom.
- After surveying teachers, the Ecology Club made and delivered paper reuse bins for all classrooms in the school, so that paper used only on one side can be used as scratch paper.
- The club also collected bottle caps and sent them to Aveda to be recycled.
- The school included recycling tips and information in online newsletters to the student body.
- A King County representative provided a recycling presentation and trivia game at the school-wide Earth Day event.
Comments
"Guidance and assistance from the good folks at the Green Schools Program has been tremendously helpful in getting our fledgling recycling program off the ground. They have been generous with timely and helpful advice and encouragement, and we look forward to continuing to work with them to make our school even greener!"
– Scott McComb, director of STEM Leadership
Awards
- Aviation High School was honored by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for overall academic excellence and for science. Preparing students for college, career, and citizenship includes environmental stewardship.
For more information about the school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Scott McComb, director, STEM Leadership
206-716-0006
mccombsw@hsd401.org
Pandora Touart, resource conservation manager, Highline School District
touartap@hsd401.org
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