recycle right.
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Grades K-4
Tutorial 3. Home Recycling Set-Up
Objective: Set-up recycle stations throughout your home and come up with a plan to keep your household on track.
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Recycling can be easy if you know the rules. The best way for a city to achieve zero waste is to make recycling easy for everyone. You can be a big part of the process. By now you are an expert on what materials go into each of your colored waste bins. It’s time to use your new skills at home and at your school.
To get started you need to focus on one very important strategy: the perfect set-up. To make the perfect set-up, you will place a recycling container next to every trash container. The perfect set-up helps people make the right choice every time they throw things out. Let’s get started helping your household Recycle Right! |
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The Perfect Set-up
The perfect set-up is to have one bin for recycling and one for landfill waste side by side everywhere waste is thrown out. If you do not have enough containers, you can reuse empty boxes.
Here’s where you can get creative. You need to have people in your house notice your perfect set-up. Can you decorate the containers in a way that makes sure everyone knows exactly what goes in each container?
You might make them match the room where they are placed. Or, you could make them gray and blue to match the containers outside.
The perfect set-up is to have one bin for recycling and one for landfill waste side by side everywhere waste is thrown out. If you do not have enough containers, you can reuse empty boxes.
Here’s where you can get creative. You need to have people in your house notice your perfect set-up. Can you decorate the containers in a way that makes sure everyone knows exactly what goes in each container?
You might make them match the room where they are placed. Or, you could make them gray and blue to match the containers outside.
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Choose the Best Spots
Where should you place your perfect set-up? Look around your house. Where do you make the most waste? The kitchen? The garage? The office? Make sure you pick the best places in each room: by desks, near doors, under sinks. Remember, everywhere you think there should be a waste container, you’ll place your perfect set-up. |
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Waste Pick-up Schedule
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The last step is to find out when the Waste Management trucks come to your neighborhood to pick up waste.
You will want to know this so you can place all of your outside bins by the curb on time — or better yet, the night before. Why do you think putting your bins out early is important? |
To find out when the Waste Management trucks come by, you can ask adults in your household, you can watch for the day of the week that all your neighbors put out their bins and you can always call and ask the staff at Waste Management at (760) 439-2824. They are happy to help you.
Tutorial Challenge
Now it’s time to get started! Find the best spots. Create your perfect set-ups. Make signs that will make it easy for your family to reduce landfill waste. If your family has a compost pile, add a special container
in the kitchen for food scraps.
in the kitchen for food scraps.
- How many spots in your home did you place perfect set-ups?
- After the first week of your new recycling set-up, how much waste did you notice went into the recycling bin instead of the trash?
- How will you make recycling a habit in your family?
Zero Waste Champion T-shirtAfter completing “Tutorial 3. Home Recycling Set-up” receive a free Zero Waste Champs T- Shirt!
It’s easy, just take a photo of one of your Home Recycling Set-ups and email it, along with your name, address and preferred shirt size to: ZeroWasteChampions@oceansideca.org. Your shirt will be mailed directly to you. Thanks for being a Zero Waste Champion! |
T-shirts are available while supplies last and for Oceanside residents.
