Teaching Kids To Go Green

2008 November 04 by: Scott

Schools across the country are “going green.” This means that your child is learning how to conserve energy, keep out Earth environment clean and have more by using less. The focus is not longer just center on “saving the Amazon,” but saving the planet.

During the 2005-06 school year, the eighty schools in five US states participating in the program reported impressive numbers in terms of waste diversion. According to a release from the organization, Go Green schools saved:

2 million pounds of paper
14, 000 pounds of cardboard
25,000 pounds of aluminum
48,300 pounds of plastic beverage containers
1650 cellular phones
8700 printer cartridges
202,090 pounds of mixed recyclables
13,648 pounds of food waste

Going green means that that these schools:

Saved 24,792 trees
Avoided 17 billion BTUs of energy use
Avoided 892 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions
Avoided 7.2 million gallons of water use, due to paper recycling
Avoided 392,540 gallons of oil use, due to paper recycling
Kept 21,775 pounds of petroleum products out of our rivers and oceans, due to ink cartridge recycling