Mount View is proud to reduce its waste stream by participating in the following waste diversion methods created by students:
Green Locker Cleanouts
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School REstore (reusing)
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Tear It Up (reducing/reclaiming)
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Eco Crafting (upcycling)
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Cafeteria Recycling
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Chip Bags (upcycling)
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Juice Pouches (upcycling and recycling)
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Markers (recycling)
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Textile (reusing and recycling)
Green Locker Clean Outs
During the end of year locker clean outs, the student Green Team:
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A screenshot of the sign created by the student organizers.
Students collecting items for the school REstore and helping other students to recycle.
A screenshot of the instructions for the online contest about how to clean out lockers "The Green Way."
A screenshot of student responses to one of the questions from the online contest about how to clean out lockers "The Green Way."
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REstore
The REstore is a place where students and teachers can get gently used (or unused!) school supplies for free. The Environmental Leadership Team (ELT) sorts the school supplies collected during locker cleanouts, so that students can use them so they don't to waste. Then, students open the REstore on Tuesday and Thurday mornings during homeroom. All students are welcome to visit the REstore and get supplies. |
Photos of supplies in the school REstore, the log-in sheet of supplies that were taken, and a photo of a student getting a binder.
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Tear It Up-
# of student organizers each year: 2 Average # of students participating each year: 15-20 Students in the ELT (Environmental Leadership Team) gather all of the half used spiral notebooks and composition books and advertise an after school event for students called Tear it Up! Participants compete in a series of races to tear out the most paper during timed intervals. Winners of each round win cupcakes prepared by the ELT. |
Photos of student teams tearing out paper and a stack of reclaimed paper.
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Eco Crafting-
Students in our Environmental Leadership course (ELT) research and organize several eco crafting projects each year to minimize our waste. They identify old supplies like folders and dictionaries that teachers didn't need anymore. During the last four years, Eco Crafting events have included
These events have taken place after school, during lunch time, and during our quarterly school celebration day (Falcon Day). |
Birds made from old file folders and kaleidoscopes made from Pringles cans.
Ornaments made from old dictionaries.
A display made from old polybinders and chip bags.
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Cafeteria Recycling
Average # of student organizers each year: 7 Approximate # of students participating each year: (whole school) 825 Students in the ELT (Environmental Leadership Team) and in the G/T Research class create cafeteria displays to encourage students to recycle. Signs vary each year based upon student interest, and include informational posters explaining which items can be recycled to motivational posters explain why it is important to recycle. |
A cafeteria poster created by a G/T Research student to show how recycling helps animals like the sea otter.
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A cafeteria recycling can with a "RECYCLE" sign created by ELT members to show different items that can be recycled.
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Chip BagsAverage # of student organizers each year: 20
Average # of students participating each year: 225 Students on Mount View's Green Team meet once a week to gather the chip bags collected during lunch, clean them, and reuse the material for various art projects such as eco-crafting during the Backyard Bird Count or cutting them into feathers for a Falcon Mascot. |
A Green Team student cuts cleaned bags into feathers for an art project.
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The chip bag bin in the cafeteria.
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Marker CollectionAverage number of student organizers each year: 2
Average number of students participating each year: 2 During the 2016-17 school year, two G/T Research students examined the recyclability of markers and enrolled Mount View in the Color Cycle program through Crayola. The students contacted local elementary schools and created a collection box at Mount View. Now, Green Team members keep a Marker Collection bin at Mount View, but most of the markers that they gather each year come from our feeder elementary schools. |
The students keep a marker collection bin ready.
The students who created this project speak with locals elementary school to see if Mount View can collect their markers. They take notes from each interview.
An e-mail from our Green Committee PTA chairperson stating that she had sent out 16 pounds of markers.
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Clothing To Cash
Average number of student organizers each year: 2 Estimated number of families participating each year: 100 Pounds of clothing collected during last 2 years: 20,465 The Clothing To Cash bin is where we collect old textiles that people don't want anymore in order to keep them out of the landfill. We collect clothes that can still be used, but we also take old ripped up textiles because the company shreds them into fibers and recycles them. Each month the clothes are collected and the PTA gets money from the number of pounds of clothes collected.
This project was created in 2017 by two G/T Research students who wanted to reduce the textile waste stream. Now, the ELT (Environmental Leadership Team) leads efforts to promote textile drives by creating TV announcements, visual aids, signs, and Facebook posts. This picture shows the new bin being introduced to the MVMS community in our weekly school newsletter, the Viewpoint, in September 2017.
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This screenshot shows the pounds of textiles collected as of January 2019. During the months that we placed first, second, or third, the students prepared promotional materials for specific "drives" to collect as many textiles as possible.
This picture shows the promotional materials that the ELT creates to advertise our bin and textile drives.
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BELOW: This screenshot shows the research that Mia and Katie presented to the PTA and administration in order to get the Clothing To Cash bin installed at Mount View.