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About Recycling Elementary School [SCHOOL NAME] Recycling Elementary School [SCHOOL NAME] is located in Ottawa [CITY], Ontario and is part of the Reduce District School Board [SCHOOL BOARD NAME]. 100 [NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS] students from grades 2 [LOWEST GRADE] to 5 [Highest Grade] will be participating in the 2012 Waste- Free Lunch Challenge. For the past 3 [NUMBER OF YEARS] years, Recycling Elementary School [SCHOOL NAME] has been recognized as an Ontario EcoSchool [AND/OR OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS]. We actively participate in the Earth Hour, Canadian Shoreline Clean-up and Walk to School Week [SCHOOL ACTIVITIES]. About The Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) The Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) Waste-Free Lunch Challenge aims to support educators and students to reduce waste generated from school lunches. The Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization committed to minimizing society's impact on the environment by eliminating waste. RCO's mission is to inform and educate all members of society about the avoidance of waste, efficient use of resources, and the benefits and/or consequences of these activities. Since its inception in 1978, RCO has actively assisted municipalities, corporations, other organizations and individuals in reducing waste. 22
Attachment Five: Sample Announcements These sample announcements may need to be modified according to your school’s Waste-Free lunch events. Waste Fact of the Day Date Read Hey did you know that Waste-Free Lunch week is coming? On ___________ (insert date), we will be participating in the Waste-Free Lunch Challenge when students from schools across Ontario are bringing lunches to school that don’t make garbage. How will we do it? • We will start by packing our food in reusable containers like old margarine tubs rather than a plastic bag. • We will fill up a reusable bottle with our drink • We will bring our own spoon and fork to eat it with. After lunch, all the cutlery, bottles, and containers go back in our bags and nothing goes in the garbage at all. Let’s always remember the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! 23 In North America, we make enough garbage every day to fill 70,000 garbage trucks. Lined up bumper to bumper, over a year, they would stretch halfway to the moon! Did you know that one student taking a disposable lunch to school creates a total of 30 kilograms of lunch waste every year? For elementary: That is about how much a grade two student weighs. Did you know that if juice boxes, pop cans or paper or any other recyclable items are in the garbage can, they go to the landfill? Nobody is sorting for you – make sure your recyclable stuff makes it to the blue box! Any idea what juice boxes and milk cartons become after being recycled? Tissue products! Have you looked in your garbage can lately? The packaging that your food comes in makes up about 30% of our garbage. Choose foods with as little packaging as possible, like bulk foods. Fruits and vegetables come in their own packages which you can eat up or compost. Recycle a pop can and save electricity?! That’s right! By recycling one pop can, you save enough electricity to keep a TV on for three hours.
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents WASTE REDUCTION W
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION This guide was develop
Page 7 and 8: Who can participate? All schools (e
Page 9 and 10: GETTING STARTED - BEFORE THE CHALLE
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Page 13 and 14: COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE During the
Page 15 and 16: Which category should I nominate my
Page 17 and 18: PRE-CHALLENGE RESOURCES Attachment
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Page 27 and 28: Plastics/Aluminum • Recycling pla
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