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Success Story: Cascade View Elementary School
School District: Snoqualmie Valley
School Location: Snoqualmie
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: June 2007
Level one of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in June 2009
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Cascade View Elementary School increased its recycling rate by 58 percent, from 16 percent to 38 percent. The school accomplished this by increasing classroom recycling and initiating a lunchtime recycling program for milk cartons and other materials.
- Teacher Elizabeth Johnson created a fifth grade Green Team that created paper reuse boxes, helped with recycling collection and worked on a litter reduction campaign.
- The school implemented a Waste Free Wednesday to encourage durable and recyclable packaging in lunches sent from home.
- 550 students decorated Earth Day reminder bags for the local IGA grocery store.
- By decreasing paper use and making double sided copies, teachers reduced the amount of paper ordered for the workroom and saved more than $300 in a single month.
- Recycling containers provided by the Green Schools Program were added to classrooms for paper and other materials and to the lunchroom for milk cartons, juice boxes, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
- Cascade View also collects plastic bags, eyeglasses, cell phones, printer cartridges, Capri Sun packets and glue sticks for recycling.
- School staff placed recycling stickers on classroom and lunchroom recycling containers. Provided by the Green Schools Program, the stickers list what can and cannot be recycled. Students educated their fellow students about why recycling is important.
Transportation Choices/Energy Conservation
- Cascade View became a “No Idle Zone” school.
- The school reduced energy use after the district provided automatic computer shut down at the end of every school day.
Cascade View Elementary’s plans for 2009-2010 include the following:
- Scheduling the King County elementary school assembly program to educate students and staff about waste reduction and recycling
- Creating a video to educate students and staff about conservation activities
- Improving communication to the school community through newsletters and e-mails
- Working with the district to eliminate disposable plastic silverware, clam shells and polystyrene bowls
- Using only double sided copies in the teacher work room and encouraging more use of scrap paper that has been used on one side
- Beginning food scrap collection in the lunchroom
- Doing more Waste Free Wednesdays
- Reducing energy use
For more information about the school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Elizabeth Johnson, teacher
johnsonec@svsd410.org
Tim Nootenboom, principal
nootenboomt@svsd410.org
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