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Success Story: Southwood Elementary School
School District: Enumclaw
School Location: Enumclaw
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: November 2008
Level one of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2009
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Southwood Elementary increased its recycling rate from 40 percent to 57 percent.
- Due to the school’s efforts, the frequency of garbage collection was decreased from every day to three times per week, saving the school $200 each month. Custodian Dick Lundberg has a goal of reducing the pickups to twice per week.
- Morning PA announcements were used to promote the school’s waste reduction and recycling efforts.
- Parent volunteers conducted a plastic bag recycling campaign.
- Southwood Elementary now recycles milk cartons campus wide.
- Recycling containers provided by the Green Schools Program were added to each classroom for paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
- School staff placed recycling stickers on all recycling containers. Provided by the Green Schools Program, the stickers list what can and can’t be recycled.
For more information about this school’s participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Jody Emerson, ASB advisor
Jody_Emerson@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Susan Arbury, principal
Susan_Arbury@enumclaw.wednet.edu
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