The Alameda Green Team hopes you and your students are
having fun filling out the Earth Week Challenge Logs this week
and making small changes in your habits. If we continue to
practice these changes after this week, they will become
automatic and easy.
The Green Team would also like to remind you to continue
tracking your carbon footprint reducing activities by filling
out your Earth Week Challenge Log. Don't forget to turn them
in Friday morning to your teachers. The Green Team will pick
them up and all participants in the Earth Week Challenge Log
will be entered in a random drawing for lots of great prizes!
The Green Team will estimate the amount of carbon emissions
saved by the cumulative efforts of Alameda families. The
results will be posted to News Notes the following week.
The sale of waste free lunch items is continuing through
Thursday afternoon. Be sure to buy your sandwich wraps, waste
free lunch boxes and stainless steel water bottles to use
every time you pack a lunch!
Friday is Alameda's first Waste Free Lunch Day!
Let's see if we can reduce the number of garbage bags that
leave the cafeteria from 12 bags to 6! Can you help us cut the
amount of garbage in half?
How do you create a waste free lunch?
- Pack a lunch using non-disposable containers.
- Pack a cloth napkin, silverware and a drink bottle.
- Pack items that are not prepackaged or individually
wrapped.
- If you get milk in the cafeteria, bring your milk carton
home to rinse and recycle.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Wow! There is a lot of
recycling going on! The bins in the hallway are overflowing
but we will continue to accept the following items through
Friday:
- Batteries: Bring your dead alkaline, lithium
and/or rechargeable batteries and place in the appropriate
bins.
- Tennis shoes: Don't know what to do with that old
pair of gym shoes? Bring used shoes you don't want anymore -
shoes missing matches or in really bad shape will be ground
up for sports/playground surfaces. Shoes that are in decent
shape will find a new home with a person unable to buy shoes
for themselves.
- Eyeglasses: If you wear glasses or contacts, you
have a few pairs of eyeglasses with an old prescription in
them lying around the house. Bring them in and we'll take
them to the Lions Club at the end of the week. The Lions
Club spiffs them up and donates them to people in need all
around the world.
- Block Styrofoam: Bring in your block Styrofoam
(no deli, packing peanuts, meat trays or takeaway
containers - only the rigid stuff).
The Alameda Green Team welcomes comments, suggestions or
questions. Please email greenteam@alameda.org
