Congratulations to the community on rethinking our approach to waste management! Thanks to the green team, the PTA and the event committee, spirited volunteers, cooperative guests, and generous donors such as Gotham Greens, Arts & Science Day was a green success: After a solid 4 hours of activity, only one bag of garbage was sent to the landfill. We collected 6 full bags of compostable material, two full bags of containers and two full bags of paper.
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- The Children’s School Students Reduce, Reuse, Recycle –and their families did too.
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- The community put gently used items to good use: In one room, old toys were hacked and hooked up to vegetables.
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- Once connected, students could activate individual toys just by touching the corresponding produce.
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- Mini E-Waste Drive was popular
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- Gotham Greens donated 160 basil starts again this year! And while upcycled plastic seltzer and soda bottles provided the base planters,
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- Boxes, tubes, masking tape
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- and other repurposed materials were used for the Rube Goldberg contraption.
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- By the end of the day, the entire box was full.
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- The kids collected + sorted so much, only one of trash was left.
While that count does not include kitchen waste, it still represents a huge improvement over past years! Perhaps most importantly, the work of collecting and sorting fit into the day. Ms.Sarah’s activity table was lively and popular, thanks in part to the prizes. Some 100 raffle tickets were distributed, which represents about one hundred “turns” walking around and collecting waste, plus separating and/or digging out old cellphones and accessories at home. A big, fat green thanks to all!