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Success Story: Sunrise Elementary School
School District: Northshore
School Location: Redmond
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: September 2009
Level one of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2009
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Sunrise Elementary School increased its recycling rate from 36 percent to 57 percent. The school diverts an average of three yards of recyclable materials out of the waste stream every week, for an annual reduction of more than 125 yards.
- The school’s Green Team conducted a Green Week to celebrate Earth Day. Activities included a waste-free lunch day organized by teacher Joanne Burkett.
- The student team created and distributed colorful posters about recycling that included samples of common recyclable materials.
- To reduce paper use and encourage the use of both sides of paper, the Green Team made scrap paper boxes for every classroom.
- The Green Team also organized an after-school activity of maintaining the school grounds without the use of herbicides or pesticides.
- 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.
- Sunrise is piloting milk carton recycling in two classrooms with the intention of expanding the program school-wide in September 2009.
For more information about this school’s participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Joanne Burkett, teacher
jburkett@nsd.org
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