Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team 
- 64 Students
- 6 report(s)
- 0 lbs CO2e saved
Step 1: Perform a Baseline Assessment
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If you have already started a waste reduction initiative at your school, provide a brief description of the initial problem you observed.
Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team
Ortega Elementary
Pacifica
Step 2: Create an Action Plan to obtain GSS certification
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If you already started a waste reduction initiative, report on what action project(s) you have completed and how you implemented this project at your school.
5th Grade Leadership Projects- Compost Club and Green Team
Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team
Ortega Elementary
Pacifica
Step 3: Complete the Action Projects identified in your Action Plan (must do at least one)
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If you already started a waste reduction initiative, report on what action project(s) you have completed and how you implemented this project at your school.
Cafeteria clean greens to backyard compost bins
Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team
Ortega Elementary
Pacifica
Step 4: Do a Follow-up Assessment and / or report on the actions taken by your class to conserve resources and reduce C02e. Include the numbers here in this step, such as the amount of paper recycled over 30 days.
Leftover Salad Gets Second Life as Compost
Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team
Ortega Elementary
Pacifica
Step 5: Celebrate and Share your project(s)
Compost Club eats the Fruit of their Labor!
Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team
Ortega Elementary
Pacifica
Waste Free Wednesdays and the Weekly Green Ticket Raffle
Mrs. Stevenson's Compost Club and Green Team
Ortega Elementary
Pacifica
Waste Free Wednesdays and the Weekly Green Ticket Raffle
June 5 2020
The Ortega Eco Ambassadors (aka the Green Team) take on single use waste in the cafeteria with their Waste Free Wednesday and Green Ticket Weekly Raffle!
Summary
The Green Team decided they wanted to help educate their fellow students about how to reduce single use plastic in their lunches. They gave a cafeteria speech to explain about their new Waste Free Wednesday campaign. Twice a week (Wednesday and a mystery day), members of the green team would go into the cafeteria during lunch and pass out green tickets to people who had a completely waste free lunch. These tickets were entered into a weekly raffle to win reusable gifts like stainless steel straws.
For students who get lunch at school every day, there was another option! Students could also pick up 20 pieces of garbage around school and trade that in for a green ticket for the raffle too. This was very popular, and students started cleaning up the campus all the time to earn raffle tickets. Ortega is making more and more sustainable choices!
Do you want to do this project with your class?
