ECOLOGY TIPS FOR SCHOOLS
I have chosen Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity to teach my future students how to be responsible citizens through inspiring them to learn about ecology and, in particular, recycling.Many students know something about recycling, but few realize that even their old printers and computers can be recycled. These articles inform the students of the policies of their schools, cities and states' regulations regarding what can be recycled and where.
In an article entitled "Steps to Responsible E-Waste Management at Your School," by Caprice Lawless, five steps are listed that enable teachers and administrators to learn how to best undertake the process of recycling in their schools.
The five steps are:
1. Educate yourself about local, national and international legislation
2. Investigate recycling options from the companies that sell you equipment
3. Learn about shredding and sorting and how to certify that recycling is happening
4. What others are doing
5. Put together your plan for responsible waste management
There is a page entitled, "How your classroom can help" that communicates ways students can contribute to the recycling effort of your school, district, and city.
You can access the article at:
Lawless, Caprice. (2008) Steps to Responsible E-Waste Management at Your School. Retrieved September 15, 2012, at www.iste@iste.org
There is another very informative articles entitled, "Portland & the Globe - Thinking about how school's reputations change." that discusses the current obsession with recycling that has overtaken Portland, Oregon. The article addresses how schools' reputations can suffer if their students and faculty are seen as uncaring about our planet's ecology when no effort to save paper, water bottles, and soda cans is forthcoming. Portland's schools are evaluated in the Portland monthly magazine on a yearly basis.
You can access this article at: Rurik-Rory Nackerud's blog. The blog is entitled:
Portland & the Globe - Thinking about how school's reputations change. Retrieved September 15, 2012, at www.iste-community.org/xn/detail/2280708PBlogPost:133375?xg.
I like this article but unfortunately I have to say that say in Temecula all of those are considered e waste. And you can not simply take them to a recycle center. You have to wait until the once a year e waste recycle center opens at chaparral high school. I am all for recycling printers and cartridges but they tend to accumulate around the house until Temecula decides to plan an e waste day.
ReplyDeleteClaudia, this was a good and simple introduction to becoming more aware and responsible about the e waste created by our discarding of digital technology, about recycling, and ecology as a whole. I am one who recycles at my residence, and puts items in the recycle containers at the university because it does have a positive impact on the environment. And, as you point out here, that the reputation of schools can suffer if their students and faculty are seen as uncaring, just the opposite can happen when schools and universities go above and beyond in their efforts to recycle and make ecology awareness a norm within it's culture. if I remember correctly, CSUSM has lead the nation a number of times in the amount of recycling generated by colleges and universities. However, as the first commenter indicates, cities are doing little to make the recycling if digital technology an easy process. Having to drive to a dump, and/or having to wait for that scheduled collection time once or twice a year for hazardous materials does little to nothing to compel consumers to recycle e waste. Many people and businesses break cell phones, need new batteries, and discard old and damaged devices more then once a year.
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