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Preventing a ton (literally) of waste at your school can be easy, inexpensive, and educational.
#1 Easiest First Step
- Stop buying plastic markers.
- Billions already exist on the planet as plastic pollution forever.
What should we use instead? How is this educational?
There is so much fascinating stuff for students to learn here!
- Weight + Volume Calculations of waste created by markers.
Be cool if it were.
Wouldn't it be magical if “they” could take back ALL of the zillions of markers, chop them up and make new little markers?
Reality is:
•Marker “recycling” programs = incineration.
•Or to put it in sanitized-speak: Converting plastics to energy
Cost concerns have to start with the fact that it is now the norm to throw fully usable school supplies into the garbage at the end of the year, and purchase new ones at the beginning of every school year.
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When one of us is looking over a typical Back-to-School Shopping List, you'll hear "They don't need THAT! - FIVE comp books? NO. Nope. That's too many" - "Who needs a dozen pens?!"
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