Hi,
My wife, Heidi Carter, is on the Durham school board. I asked her about
recycling in the schools, and it turns out that she attended a meeting
yesterday
on this topic. She said that Durham Public Schools has a contract with a
waste management firm that does separately collect solid waste from
recyclable
materials in each school. The city does not provide waste collection for
the school system, so this has to be privately contracted by the DPS and
paid for
out of their budget. Their contract does provide a financial benefit for
the school system to reduce the amount of solid waste collected by
diverting recyclable
materials into recycling collections. She said that DPS used to have a
central office manager to direct and oversee the implementation of solid
waste
removal and recycling in all of the schools, but this position had to be
eliminated in the last couple of years due to budget cuts and pressure to
trim the central
office staff. This manager was responsible for training the cafeteria and
custodial staff at each school on the processes for separating solid waste
from
recyclable materials, and working with each school to minimize the amount
of recyclable material sent into the solid waste stream. Without this
manager,
she acknowledges that the implementation of recycling in all of the schools
is inconsistent and nowhere near optimal. Instead, the responsibility
has fallen
on the school principal or other staff, and its effectiveness is often
based on a teacher or parent advocate who wants to help drive it. Heidi
considers
recycling to be important for DPS, and she would like to figure out how it
can be implemented more effectively at all schools despite the resource
constraints.
Scott Carter
From: "Debra A Hawkins" <dhawkins913311 at gmail.com>
To: "'INC'" <inc-list at rtpnet.org>,
Date: 08/13/2013 04:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Needed tonight: Recycling in Your School -
Yourresponse needed for a quick survey
Sent by: inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org
I’m not involved with schools being that I’m not employed with them nor
have kiddos. But I seem to recall from our city manager’s INC talk that the
city collects trash for various entitities, aren’t the public schools part
of that – or are they on the contracted removals list he mentioned?
If the former, (or maybe just for recycling if not) -- adding them on the
route of the residential recycling collection would seem to be a not
outrageously difficult measure. They are already willing to do this for
recycling bins in n’hood parks, as long as there are folks willing to be
sure they’re put out on the route/collection day. We’ve started to in
Northgate Park, and there are others.
What a good civic lesson it would be for kids to wheel out their barrels
for this purpose!
Debra
From: inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Melissa Rooney
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:40 PM
To: Dorothy Potter Snyder; INC
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Needed tonight: Recycling in Your School -
Yourresponse needed for a quick survey
I was told by several teachers at my kids elementary school (this was 2-3 yrs ago) that the recycling got thrown in w the regular trash when it was
collected. I have never seen any separate bins (the big metal kind) for recycling, although the teachers do have little plastic blue trash and for
paper recycling. I don't know the whole story there. I inquired, but I didn't follow up (too much other stuff on the front burners).
If DPS doesn't pay for recycling collection, they should...at least IMHO :-)
Melissa
From: Dorothy Potter Snyder <letsspeakspanish at gmail.com>;
To: Melissa Rooney <mmr121570 at yahoo.com>;
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Needed tonight: Recycling in Your School - Your
response needed for a quick survey
Sent: Mon, Aug 12, 2013 11:47:31 PM
Are you suggesting that some schools just *pretend* to recycle? Do you actually know this as a fact? And if it is so, isn't this in violation of the
law in addition to being a terrible violation of the children's trust?
Dorothy P. Snyder
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Melissa Rooney <mmr121570 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello. Please see below and consider taking the (literally) 3 minutes it takes to complete the survey below, which will help determine how many
schools in Durham actually recycle and help spread this practice at our public, private, charter, and other schools.
If you believe that recycled materials are separately collected but utimately get thrown in with the general trash at collection, please indicate
this as well. I know this has happened at my kids' school for several years now, and it would be good to figure things out in this regard.
Thanks for caring (and sharing)!
Melissa (Rooney)
See below...
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From: "Dautlick, Tania" <Tania.Dautlick at durhamnc.gov>
To: "mmr121570 at yahoo.com" <mmr121570 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013 4:40 PM
Subject: FW: Recycling in Your School - Your response needed for a quick survey
Dear Melissa,
I am not sure if you received the evite that I sent to you. We are trying to get responses to this survey before our meeting tomorrow so we’ll have
some basis for conversation. Please complete it if you can and forward the message and link below to other Durham Public School parents or teachers.
Our turnaround time is very short but we would like input from as many schools as possible. Thank you!
Tania
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Keep Durham Beautiful and our recycling partners are seeking to understand the current challenges and enhance the successes that parents, staff,
teachers and students are experiencing with recycling in Durham Public Schools. Our goal is to identify ways to make recycling easier in schools. To
help us better understand the current state of recycling, please complete this short 9-question survey by midnight Monday August 12. We’ll use the
information to guide our discussions. Thank you so much for your help!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7N7Q9NP
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Tania Dautlick
Executive Director
Keep Durham Beautiful, Inc
2011 Fay Street, Durham, NC 27704
919-354-2729
tania at keepdurhambeautiful.org
http://www.keepdurhambeautiful.org/
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