Does my school recycle?

Question

My school just dumps everything in the same garbage bin! But, they claim that there is some type of system that the city has which sorts all recyclables from garbage....
Are they lying??
If this is false what can I do to stop them?

Answer 1

I would contact the city on this, they will be the ones who have an answer to this question and whether your school put it's garbage through it. They would be the only one's that could honestly tell you.

Answer 2

Some cities have special bins for all recyclable goods and trash and when the bin is emptied the contents are taken to a center where people sort through everything and recycle what they can and trash what they can't. It typically costs the user more but it is faster and at least some recycling is getting done.

Answer 3

My school does the same thing. This is what I understand happened:

The Spanish speaking custodians didn't know to put the recycling in a different bin from the trash, so they would combine it all and put in the dumpster. Because there was never anything in the recycling collection bins when the truck came by, they took them away because we weren't using them.

The environmental club is trying to get it back up. We are doing this by contacting school officials and the Solid Waster Authority. The kept giving us different dates the recycling program would be up by and then it kept getting pushed off, but we'll keep working on getting it back up.

For now, those of us who care, are collecting our own recyclables and ones others put in the "recycling bin" in the trash room, and driving them to the Solid Waste Authority ourselves.

Answer 4

Go to your student council and express your concern. Offer to start a campaign to recycle, and see if the city will provide another dumpster for recycling at the school. Get on your independant school site on the web and send an email to the superintendant and to the local newspaper. You could also start a student project of collecting phone books at the end of the year in neighborhoods around the school and taking them to the recycling plant. Often, the plants will donate for the efforts. The more publicity you get on it, and the more attention you cause, along with offering positive ways to enforce it, the more support you are likely to get from the school. It makes everyone look good, and you are doing a favor to the enviroment along with community service!

Answer 5

It doesn't seem to me that your school recycles if everything is going in one trash.When I was in school things were sorted and when I worked at a camp we had about 5 trashcans and each trashcan was labeled for what tiem goes in.If you feel like your school is lying and you would like for your school to begin recycling you can do the following:

1.talk to the Superintendent and tell them your concerns and what your school does and that if there isn't really a recycling system you would like to see one placed.He/She should look into it.

2.Get a petition.have your classmates and other students sign a petition stating you all would like to have a real recycling system in place.

3.If you have more than one trashcan take it among yourself to dump your trash correcly and get others to do the same.I don't think you would get in trouble if you placed signs on the trashcans stating what items goes in(paper,plastic,etc.)

Answer 6

Yes, They are lying.
Most of the stuff picked up by cities that individuals sort out and put at the road is thrown away.

Recycling was not a successfull buisness. We learned this in the early 90's

You live in a capitolist government.
Money is your Master.

If you are concerned about the environment you can climb trees and stand in buildings that developers want to cut or demolish. You will go to jail, but you will be among millions who may eventually be heard.

You can refuse to buy Things which are manfactured and sold because of style, while the same instruments are being thrown away because their paint job, or their brand name is no longer stylish

You can ride bicycles, and stop burning oil.

You can re-use things you were taught to throw away.

Can you depend on a capitolist government to preserve? NO

Will they have festival where rich capitolists drink togather and make tax deductable donations to bullshit organizations with CUTE GREEN names? (comercials websites celbrity endorsments ect...) YES


If you want to do your share, our native fathers will reward you in heaven, but beware, The Romans will Outcast you, they will sue you and Torture you, and call you a dumpster diver.

Answer 7

Yes, they do recycle.
Most high schools are given leniancy to what they can put into a recyclable bins, considering they would be able to recycle a lot.

Answer 8

Unless their dumpster has dividers which I highly doubt, they should be separating the recyclables. They may be paying off the sanitation workers, otherwise they would be fined.

Call your city sanitation services and ask to speak to the superintendent of sanitation, that's who I ask for where I live. Tell them what's going on and they should check it out. Good luck and I'm glad you care about our environment.

Answer 9

You should go to your town's Department of public works and ask them themselves if they have this system, and if they do ask them if your school uses it. If they don't your should talk to your principal or board of education to see if you get the school to start recycling.

Answer 10

Your school probely does not recyce. Talk to a teacher about it. If you keep talking about it your school will make a change. Also you could put cardboard boxes in your class, and ask you teacher to tell students to put unused or barley used papers in it. This really works! Also if someone needs paper to go to the cardboard box.