Education
Programming
Targeting
both the residential and business sectors MMWA bases their education
programming on the 4 R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover.
Waste reduction and pollution prevention efforts include public
information and education campaigns and publication of a variety of
information resources.
Information Resources
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School Education
4REE/4R Environmental
Education Program
4REE is MMWA’s intensive school
environmental education outreach program, initiated in 2001. The
primary goal of the 4REE program is to get students to actively
participate in waste reduction and recycling through specialized
curricula, presentations and school-wide activities. To ensure
accessibility to programming, this program, like all of the Authority’s
school programming, is provided at no cost to interested schools.
Interested, enrolled schools
meet with MMWA staff to train for the year long program, implement a
paper recycling program, schedule a special waste reduction event,
receive in-classroom recycling lessons taught by MMWA staff and schedule
an in-school assembly promoting recycling. MMWA’s School Education
Coordinator assists enrolled schools throughout the school year in
completing the program’s five criteria.
Since the
program began, 40 schools have participated in the program, sharing 4R
lessons with nearly 14,000 students. Schools must recycle paper as
one of the program criteria. The school that recycles the most per
student over 12 months is awarded a park bench made from recycled milk
jugs. The combined effort across the eight years of the 4REE program has kept
over 320,000 pounds of paper from being landfilled and wasted.
Click here for a list of 4REE award
winning schools.
