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Success Story: Cascade Ridge Elementary School
School District: Issaquah
School Location: Sammamish
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: In 2006–07, then again in May 2009
Level one of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in December 2009
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Cascade Ridge Elementary School maintains a recycling rate of 58 percent. Students and staff are dedicated to recycling throughout the school and to collecting food scraps in the lunchroom. The City of Issaquah provided assistance with food scrap recycling.
- The school takes its conservation message into the community by promoting recycling and composting at school-wide events and at events sponsored by the Parent Teacher Student Association. Recycling and composting receptacles are conspicuously placed at the annual Walk-A-Thon, Field Day and other events.
- To ensure proper recycling techniques, students decorated lids and made large signs with recycling instructions.
- Cascade Ridge Elementary significantly reduced its paper waste with e-newsletters and flyers instead of paper copies.
- The staff workroom has bins with scratch pads made from one-sided paper for reuse by teachers.
- Students placed stickers on recycling containers throughout the school. Provided by the King County Green Schools Program, stickers list what can and can’t be recycled.
- Along with all schools in the Issaquah School District, Cascade Ridge’s lunchroom has eliminated the use of straws and is using compostable paper trays in place of polystyrene trays.
For more information about this school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Toni Osotio, program assistant
osotiot@issaquah.wednet.edu
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