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Success Story: Madrona Elementary School
School District: Highline
School Location: SeaTac
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: November 2007
Level one of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2009
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Madrona Elementary School increased its recycling rate from 32 percent to 43 percent.
- Due to increased recycling, the school cut its garbage volume in half and eliminated one of its two 4-yard garbage Dumpsters, thus reducing costs by $589 per month.
- Madrona has a team of five students that actively help with recycling efforts throughout the school.
- Morning PA announcements and newsletter articles were used to promote the school’s waste reduction and recycling efforts.
- Teacher Eve Kolakowski organized a “no paper day” where both students and staff learned more about paper consumption and its impacts on the environment.
- Madrona staff eliminated unwanted newspaper subscriptions and mail by requesting removal from vendor mailing lists.
- The school instituted “reuse it” boxes for paper. Eighty percent of the school’s teachers use these boxes in their classrooms.
- Recycling containers provided by the Green Schools Program were added to the lunchroom for milk cartons, juice boxes, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
- 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.
- The school reduced lunchtime garbage volume by recycling plastic bottles, aluminum cans, juice boxes and milk cartons. Madrona Elementary now recycles over 600 milk cartons per day.
For more information about the school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Eve Kolakowski, teacher
kolakoej@HSD401.org
Frank Eshpeter, Highline Public Schools facilities services supervisor
eshpetf@HSD401.org
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