Great Simple Ways To Go Green At School

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For students and teaching staff, school is a place where they spend a large chunk of the day. This makes it an important place to go green. Green living doesn’t just involve implementing changes in the home. It involves making changes in your lifestyle as a whole.

Teaching children about the environment from a young age is important because it will influence them to act in a positive way toward the environment when they are older. And for older students, it is beneficial to make it easy to go green at school or on a college campus.

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Fifteen Things That You Can Do to Green Your School Campus

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Every one of us has the ability to make a difference on our child’s school campus by making a few easy changes to school policies and practices. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a positive impact on your environment, your community, your school and your child. Here are fifteen things that you can do to make changes at your own child’s school this year.

Start by creating a policy that at all school events, plates, cups and glasses must be either reusable or compostable. Be clear that disposable plastic and Styrofoam are no longer allowed to be used anywhere on campus. Provide information about where to buy compostables so that people are able to easily make this change. Here are a few options that I would recommend

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