Recycling

Recycling Initiatives for Hawken School ’09-10 Some of the Ideas to consider for an extensive recycling program at Hawken: • What: Computers, Calculators, Cellphones, random electronics via E-scrap Solutions; Where: Headquartered downtown in Cleveland, Oh. Requirements: Contact the organization via phone with authorized Hawken administrator to monitor our business partnership. We also need to organize collection process. Convenience and Positives: Free pick-up Contact Info: Phone:216-431-0796 Website: http://www.escraprecycling.com/ • What: Powerbar Wrappers via TerraCycle Where: New Jersey Requirements: We must send in our 501(c)3 charity (and their Tax ID #) to donate as a school business Convenience and Positives: Free shipment supplies and postage. Also, school receives $.02 for each wrapper donated Contact Info: Phone: 866–967– 6766 Website: http://www.terracycle.net/cbb/cbb.htm • What: Computer recycling, including monitors, hardrives, cables, printers, mouses, and anything computer related How: Computers donated are given to local Cleveland Schools through OneComunity Where: The closest site of donation to Hawken US has drop-off times from August 22-September 5, at 610 SOM Center Road, M-F 7:00-3:00 and Sat. 9:00-1:00 Requirements: Hawken must transport the supplies collected. Convenience and Positives: All proceeds go to local schools, and there is a wide range of computer supplies donatable Contact Info: To contact about Mayfield Village’s recycling, call (440) 442-5506, •

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or look at waste management’s computer recycling website, http://www.cuyahogaswd.org/residents/comprec.asp

What: Fund raiser T-shirts How: Hawken Ecology Club’s own design Where: Hawken Requirements: Proposed manufacturer (preferable organic, or even recycled T’s) and design submittal by October (date TBA) Convenience and Positives: Great way to raise awareness and have fun! Contact Info: N/A What: Cd Recycling How: Through the CD Recycling Center of America Where: The Compact Disc Recycling Center of America 68H Stiles Road, Salem, NH 03079 Requirements: Hawken must pay for postage to ship Cds Convenience and Positives: Cds are recycled free of Charge if they are obsolete or broken, including Cd cases Contact Info: http://www.cdrecyclingcenter.com/ What: Soy-based inks for our laser printers How: Ordering inks online Where: internet Requirements: Hawen must pay switch all their current laser printers to soy-ink Convenience and Positives: Soy-based ink is biodegradable, therefore it is easier to recycle. They are easier to grow, and produce few VOCs (volatile organic compounds). Plus, Ohio is home to 30,000 soy-bean producers, and therefore is the leader in the soy-ink industry Contact Info: Information: soyinksource.com Retailers: prctec.com→ soyprint.net. Call Rick Greenlaw (tel. 888-640-0062). http://www.soynewuses.org/ProductsGuide/Industrial_PrintingInks.aspx What: Cleaner cleaning supplies How: Purchase of greener cleaning supplies Where: multiple locations Convenience and Positives: biodegradable, hypoallergenic, safe Contact Info: Website: http://www.seventhgeneration.com/Green-Cleaning

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What: Composting Cafeteria waste (organic waste) How: Creating Bins with wood/metal stakes, ties, deer fence, and hammers Where: By Hawken’s organic Garden (preferably in the sun or part sun) Requirements: Initially, a 6in “brown” layer of carbon material (leaves), a 2in layer of “green” material (nitrogen-rich, such as organic cafeteria waste or grass cuttings from Hawken’s lawnmowers), and 1in of some activators (can be garden soil or bioactivators). Altogether, there will be 3-4 cycles of this mixture. As the year goes on, we will most likely just add organic waste until springtime, when conditions are more optimal for composting. A group of volunteers are needed to maintain it during the peak seasons at least 1-2 times a week Convenience and Positives: Supplies gardening soil for the Hawken Motley Crew, and gives Hawken a “green” image Contact Info: resources: http://www.bluegrassgardens.com/how-to-build-a-compost-bin.htm and http://www.cuyahogaswd.org/residents/backyard.htm

What: Recycling of a multitude of electronics, including TVs and MP3s How: Companies find a place for the item to be recycled/refurbished and pay for its shipment postage Where: Sam’s Club and Office Max Requirements: Hawken must deliver the items to the store and handle the arrangements Convenience and Positives: Items that are traded-in of a certain value can be credited towards a gift card that can be used for Hawken (sports games, etc.) Contact Info: website: www.econewonline.com/samsclub Donate sports equipment (tennis rackets, baseballs, gloves, etc.) at sportsgift.org

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Composting old hand paper towels, food scraps from cafeteria, and coffee grounds /tea bags from the teacher’s lounge (by organizing separate bins for compost) and possibly combine efforts with Circle W Garden and Hawken Motley crew for the Hawken Gardens. House recycling challenge Challenges Housese to compete for the most goods recycled - figure out a way to organize it so that it will work.

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If Hawken School doesn’t already do this, there are tax grants available to our school (www.cuyahogawd.org/education/grant.htm). You can also call Kathleen Rocco for more information (tel. 216-443-3731).

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Plastic bag recycling? Freecycle at Hawken: Create Hawkcycle, where online posts can be made just like ebay to post unneeded/ unused items in one's house, so that it can be spread throughout the community for those who need it rather than be wasted. It’s intended for those things that normally can't be donated/ are awkward to donate, and open hawken community to material requirements. The most likely items freecycled will be worn books and school supplies (i.e., if you have a worn-out binder that’s still useable, but you want a new one – or you bought mechanical pencils but found out that you like regular pencils better). Not intended for more expensive items.

Ecology Club Goals These goals can be completed during the time we meet as a group in the Ecology Club • • • • •

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Designing organic cotton /recycled T-shirts and organizing a manufacturer to produce them for us. These can be sold to raise money for the Ecology Club. I know someone who can do the designs for us. Creating posters to educate the school on the U.S.’s current initiatives in terms of environmental protection, as well as posters on what we can do to help. Organize a schedule for either the club or individuals that will help maintain our organic compost bin. Have announcements to inform the school environmentally. I.E., publicize our current ranking as a school in the Green Cup Challenge. Organize /influence the cafeteria’s choices of where to buy their fish and meat. (optional): Follow guidelines according to Monterey Bay Aquarium (at seafoodwatch.org), which help protect endangered species. (Endangered species of sea turtles are captured in heavily fished areas by accident and killed, along with sharks and dolphins). Connect with the Metroparks to see what can be done as a group effort to clean our lakes. Possibly fun Sunday activities. Organize an Earth Day program – this can be in the form of a House challenge. Anonymous Info-letters

Hi, I have some information to give you to get this program going! First of all, the website for the company that takes everything - computers, phones, keyboards, cellphones, calculators (Except TVs!) is www.escraprecycling.com, and their number is 216-431-0796. They sound like a cool company that said they normally pick up stuff from other schools in the area (although the company is a for profit company). The other cool idea for recycling anything computer related (mouses, wires, speakers, as well as moniters and operating systems) through One community, which donates them to local public schools throughout cleveland inner city and greater cleveland area, is listed below with all the information I sent Mr. Wooley. At Hawken already, I left some wood posts and deer fencing for starting a compost pile close to the worm bins. As you will see, I just started setting something up (not much yet) for an idea of what it will look like. Obviously, there are a lot of things to be done, but hopefully if you are free sometime soon we can get there, discuss it, and start getting our hands dirty! Key things that we do need and I'll try and bring when we come out next are some ties and a sledgehammer, possibly metal pieces as well to secure the container. Otherwise, I look forward to a great year for the ecology club! -----Computer Donating----Hi, I wanted to follow up on a recycling program I've been researching with the tech department and upper-school ecology club - I found the information on Cleveland's monthly computer

drop-off. First of all, the program has a 100% gurantee that the computers will not end up in a land fill, and second, all computers and parts go directly into Cleveland Public Schools as part of Onecommunity's goal to implement 50,000 computers throughout the greater Cleveland area. Last year they recycled 959 tons of computer waste, including CPUs, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, terminals, modems, cables, software, and ink printer cartridges. Waste Management's website (http://www.cuyahogaswd.org/residents/comprec.asp) has a list of places where the school can recycle their old computers from August 1-31. Assuming that Mayfield Village is closest for Hawken Upper School, drop-off times are from August 22September 5, at 610 SOM Center Road, M-F 7:00-3:00 and Sat. 9:00-1:00. For Questions, call (440) 442-5506 or www.mayfieldvillage.com . I believe Lyndhurst recycles as well if their are concerns for recycling at the Lower Campus. Thanks for considering this, best of luck from the Ecology Club, Seth Shill Green Quotes and Motivators: “In 2005, the EPA estimated that unwanted electronics represented 1.9 to 2.2 million tons. The majority of these products, about 1.5 to 1.9 million tons, were discarded in landfills with only 345,000 to 379,000 tons recycled.” (http://www.econewonline.com/).