Recycling for a Greener Garden

“…to take care of the earth because it is our home…”

Reciting our opening circle poem, “We Light This Candle”, is part of our daily Garden class routine.  Educating our children about recycling and offering our community a solution to work toward a greener Garden is one of the ways we can add action to our words. Thank you for helping us be good stewards of the earth.

Recycle in the office

Stop by the office to recycle those hard to recycle items through our Ridwell program. 

Our first pickup is November 18

We have five different recycling groups with a monthly featured group.

November’s featured group is: bread tags

Check out each of the following categories for recyclable items and click on the cons and text links for complete list of what we can and cannot recycle through Ridwell.

Recycling Categories

Click on each category for more information.

Batteries

Alkaline, re-chargable, lithium-ion, and button.

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Lightbulbs

LED, CFL, and incandescents

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Threads

Reusable and non-reusable clothes, shoes, linens and towels.

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Featured

Look on our Gazebo Calendar, School Calendar and this page for our monthly featured item.

November is Bread Tags
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Plastic Film

Shipping bags, plastic bags, overwrap, air pillows and other stretchy plastics.

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Multi-layer Plastic

Food storage bags, pet food bags, frozen food bags, and more layered packaging.

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Fridge Guides

Print out your fridge guide or visit the office for a printed copy

Thank you to Honeybee Korzen’s mom, Jazz Walton, for sharing her passion forsustainability and launching our successful plastic recycling drive. You saw Jazz’s presentation at Curriculum Days and may have seen her working hard behind the scenes to sort, weigh and load all of our recycled items. We appreciate you Jazz for inspiring change in how we see, use and reuse items that might have gone into the trash without another thought. We are excited to build upon what you started and continue to demonstrate to our students how we add action to our Opening Circle Poem, “We Light this Candle to remind ourselves…To take good care of the earth, Because it is our home…”