PROJECT PROPOSAL

School Recycling Project

Project Title: School Recycling Project

Presented By: Jenelyn Elaine H. Javier
Duration: MAY 6, 2019
National Service Training Program

RATIONAL/BACKGROUND

School recycling project provides its stakeholders with hands-on experience that
helps them grow to see that efforts to cut the wasteful use of resources does
make a difference. A variety of proactive activities can be used to teach everyone
to take responsibility for keeping the Earth cleaner and to learn how to help the
environment for a better future. According to the U.S. EPA, recycling: conserves
natural resources to help sustain the environment; reduces the need for landfilling
and incineration; saves energy and prevents pollution caused by the extraction
and processing of virgin materials therefore Recycling is necessary to reduce
waste in homes, schools and work places.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

School recycling project is focuses on three key areas:

have better resource management;
to cultivate stakeholders awareness on proper waste management; and
reduction of waste.
DESCRIPTION

A school recycling project can help stakeholders aware of where all that trash
goes and the fact that it is ‘go’, doesn't just ‘go away’. It's important to bring
landfills to the attention of future generations, because they are the ones that
will have to live with the consequences.

Landfills

Teaching about landfills and recycling is a great opportunity to show everyone in

a better way. It's an opportunity to let them know that 80 percent of the trash filling
our landfills actually could be recycled and the materials used to manufacture
new products. With budget cuts, some schools may worry about implementing
another program, but recycling at the school level offers everyone the practical
lesson and it can be both affordable and efficient and in some cases even
generate funds to help support the project.

School Recyclables

Among items recycled school items, paper is the most significant cost-saving
waste reduction. Just think of how much paper a school uses. As a result, paper
makes up 50 to 60 percent of school waste. The advantage to paper is that it
can be either reused or recycled. When paper is used on both sides and fully as
scratch paper or for making copies, school paper costs drop dramatically.

The following classified materials popularly recycled:

Scrap Paper: used bond paper, used computer paper, old notebooks, old
books, old newspapers, periodicals, other newsprints, cartons and cardboards,
colored (assorted) waste paper etc.
Glass Bottles: beer, softdrinks, catchup, glass cullets (bubog) etc.
Plastics: PET – mineral water bottles, softdrinks, plastic cups, basins,
containers, hard plastic, CD cases etc.
OPERATION/IMPLEMENTATION

Planning

do a survey of how many people are involved (students and employees);

check the amount of garbage generated daily and determine a place to store
recyclables until they are collected;

determine where the recyclable material will be sent: if it will be donated to a

cooperative of scavengers, whether it is sold, who will collect and how often. Do
not start a selective collection program without knowing where to send the
material;

do only selective collection of material that can be sent to recycling;

develop a communication program of selective collection and community

mobilization, that everyone knows how and why to participate.

follow up the collection of recyclables, its storing, and its donation;

Implementation

find the necessary equipment;

train the people involved with the school recycling (cleaning personnel,
employees, students, for example);

start the communication and mobilization campaign;

inaugurate the school recycling program with an event (video presentation,

lecture).

Hands-on recycling activities

Implementing:

necessary equipment: 2-3 cardboard boxes (reused from the supermarket).

train the people involved with the school recycling: a brief talk with the secretaries
and the cleaning personnel; activities to be developed with the students.

inaugurate the school recycling program with an event.

Keeping the School Recycling ‘Alive’

follow up the collection of recyclables, its storing, and its donation;

make a periodic review of the school recycling program and disseminate the
results to the school. The results can be disseminated by numbers of cardboard
boxes collected every Wednesday. The results will be shown in tables (graphics)
in the snack bar area and in the classroom for the students follow the collection
up.

continuous mobilization program will be done by talking to the people involved

from time to time. The students will be stimulated to continue by doing ‘fast’
activities in class.