Classroom waste reduction, school and community 3'r education, informationfacts on environmentasl facts. assembly and poster information, school yard greening, composting and other 3 R activities 

Our own Oscar the Grouch will be part of many of these events: Holding several viewings of the film “Garbage, the Revolution Starts at Home”. Created our internal WRW webpages with announcements and links Employees can take a virtual tour and follow the path of their waste. Using Count Von Count to tally the number of bags of waste and bags of recyclables generated during the week. We will run your Osc-Watch news releases over our communications screens. We are promoting litterless lunch days in our cafeterias. Participants will be given a set of compostable cutlery. Displays will show our new colour coded standard waste cans, bags, and storage sheds. We will display various waste products that used to be considered hazardous, but are now recyclable. Oscar will teach a waste management awareness session for employees. We are implementing organic waste collection from our cafeteria kitchen, beginning during WRW.

Grade Four classes plan to learn how to have litterless lunches and snacks and to promte this schoolwide through our example. We plan to keep a compost bin in our classroom for organic waste. To learn about landfills and recycling programs we wil be touring a Landfill site and having a school presetation on the new Blue Box recycling program in our city. We also plan to create our own mini landfills to test the decomposition of a variety of materials over time. We will support and promte the present schoolwide paper, cardboard, and bottle recyling initiatives. We plan to reduce the use of paper for notices and assignments through the use of email and a class D2L (Desire to Learn) website.