The Cafeteria - Part III

Recycling in the cafeteria is a SUCCESS!


The kids know what to do...

The styrofoam tray and food are garbage and the plastic bottle and milk carton are recyclable...

The styrofoam tray is garbage and the milk carton is recyclable...

The plastic and styrofoam trays and the food are garbage; the milk carton is recyclable...

The milk carton is recyclable....

Success!

The Cafeteria - Part II

The lunch aides, the custodial staff and the kitchen personnel are all working to help the students recycle properly. Earlier this month we all met one morning and using the expertise of the those who know how the cafeteria runs they came up with a logical configuration of the garbage and recycling cans. We are working to keep the can locations consistent. It was agreed that it would help the students remember where to put their trash if the cans were always in the same place. So far so good.

The Salk school joins in

PS40 resides on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors of the Gothic building on the south side of 20th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue. The prestigious middle school, The Salk School can be found on the 4th & 5th floors of this beautiful building.

Several members of the Salk School student council volunteered to create the Salk Recycling team. Since mid February the Salk Recycling team has been meeting once a week with Suzie and Michele in an effort to get Salk in compliance with all recycling rules.


These students evaluated the needs of every Salk classroom and created a chart listing the classrooms and how many recycling cans and garbage cans were required. The list was given to the custodial staff and the bins were delivered.
Once the classrooms had the appropriate recycling & garbage cans, they brainstormed ideas to encourage the Salk students to recycle. They decided to make a funny 'hidden camera' video that they will screen at a school assembly. More ideas are sure to come.