Cartridges for Kids’s Weblog

Walnut Glen Academy is Going Green this school year!  For the past several years, our school has promoted recycling ink jet cartridges, cell phones, PDA’s, etc through information in our PTA newsletter and through the use of a “Recycle Tower” at the front of the school.  The tower is just a plastic cabinet with drawers where we’ve labeled it using CFK labels and posters.  It is at kid level and I think that really helps get the message to them and gives them a convenient place to recycle AT ANY TIME.  We have also hosted contests, which are a great way to focus the attention on recycling and to help make it a part of our WGA families fiber.  We didn’t want it to only be something done once or twice a year, but that recycling would become something each student, parent and staff member thought of doing daily.  This year we established a “GO GREEN THEME OF THE MONTH” and each month we have added a new topic - our February theme is “Recycling Misc Items” (such as ink cartridges, cell phones, PDA, DVD’s - basically everything that CFK accepts).  Our Green Team was formed as an elite group of environmentally aware students championing the message to the rest of our students, faculty and staff!  The team meets weekly after school to create jingles for the morning announcements and make posters for the hallways and they give the adults ideas for how to tell kids to recycle.  For special promotions such as a CFK contest, they stand out in the morning drop off area helping students out of their cars and at the same time reminding both students and parents to recycle.