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Success Story: Eton School
School District: Bellevue
School Location: Bellevue
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: September 2009
Level One of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2010
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- The school’s Green Team began a school-wide program to collect compostable materials.
- All classrooms and offices have recycling and composting containers with signs listing what can and can’t be recycled.
- To conserve paper, staff members canceled unwanted mail subscriptions and switched from paper to electronic newsletters.
- The school’s recycling rate increased from 16 percent to 30 percent. Each month two yards of compostable materials and eight yards of recyclable materials are collected.
- By hosting a lunchtime presentation and sorting game, students trained the school community to sort lunch waste and to take care of the classroom compost bins.
- Students created posters that were hung at each recycling station.
- At the Make a Difference Summit at Islandwood outdoor learning center on Bainbridge Island, Eton students made a presentation to other schools in the Puget Sound area about how Eton started its composting collection program.
- Articles were printed in the school newspaper to promote Eton’s composting program and to encourage families to pack lunches in reusable containers.
- Eton’s environmental club, Roots and Shoots, started a battery recycling program.
Environmental Education
- Eton’s schoolyard habitat received National Wildlife Federation Schoolyard Habitat Certification.
- Roots and Shoots, the school’s environmental club, assembled an Earth Day art show that displayed photographs of nature around the campus.
For more information about the school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Sonja Everson, teacher
severson@etonschool.com
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