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Success Story: Briarwood Elementary School
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Briarwood Lunchroom Recycling
Student monitors in Briarwood’s lunchroom |
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Lunchroom Monitors
Student monitors ready to help with lunchroom recycling |
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Lunchroom Recycling
Students recycle and monitors provide guidance |
School District: Issaquah
School Location: Renton
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: September 2010
Level One of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in December 2011
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Briarwood Elementary maintains a recycling rate of 55 percent through a school-wide program that includes classroom, office, staffroom, and lunchroom recycling and food scrap collection.
- With assistance from the City of Issaquah, Briarwood launched a food scrap collection program in spring of 2010. Food scraps and other compostable materials are collected from the lunchroom and staff room and delivered to Cedar Grove composting.
- Two fourth grade students created a PowerPoint presentation about recycling in the lunchroom that is shown school-wide.
- The third grade student Green Team was trained on proper food scrap sorting and team members regularly monitor lunchroom food scrap, recycling, and garbage containers to ensure proper sorting.
- Signs in the lunchroom show which items can be composted and recycled, and which items should be placed in garbage containers.
- Students placed stickers listing what can and can’t be recycled on recycling containers throughout the school.
- Along with all schools in the Issaquah School District, Briarwood replaced plastic wrapped utensils with unwrapped utensils and eliminated the use of straws.
- The school uses durable trays that are washed and reused.
- School administration encourages staff to reduce paper use by making double sided copies, using email for communication, and sending newsletters and parent information electronically.
- To reduce paper use, PTA communication is sent electronically.
- A crayon recycling bin is kept in the staff workroom. The crayons are collected once per month and recycled by a Briarwood parent who uses them to make new crayons.
- Paper reuse containers are in the work room for paper that’s only been used on one side and that can be used on the other side.
For more information about the school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Jennifer Mitchell, program assistant
mitchellj@issaquah.wednet.edu
John Macartney, Issaquah School District resource conservation manager
johnmacartney@msn.com
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