Check out other local and national resources to increase your school or college’s recycling! There are resources for recycling challenges or professional development.
For K-12 Educators and Students
- Bring Carton Recycling to Your School: Carton Council
- Schools Recycle Right: The School Recycling Games Guide for Teachers
- Keep America Beautiful: RecycleBowl Competition
- The EarthWays Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden educational offerings
- United States Environmental Protection Agency: Learning and Teaching about the Environment
- Rethink Recycling: Games and Activities
- U.S.G.B.C.- Missouri Gateway: Green Schools Quest
- IRN Surplus: helps place surplus assets for reuse
- St. Louis Teachers Recycle Center
- Leftovers, etc.
- A Kid’s Guide to Reducing, Reusing & Recycling Waste
- EarthWays Center Innovation Challenge
- EarthWays Center: Young Green Builders Summer Camp
For Colleges and Universities
- Keep America Beautiful: RecycleMania Tournament
- St. Louis Region Higher Education Sustainability Consortium
- GrassRoots Recycling Network: Zero Waste Campuses
- EarthWays Center
- IRN Surplus: helps place surplus assets for reuse
- Saint Louis University: SLUstainability Facilities Services
- Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville: Recycling
- St. Louis Community College (All Campuses): Green at STLCC
- University of Missouri – St. Louis: Recycling at UMSL
- Washington University: Sustainability
- Let’s Go Solar: Guidebook to Going Green on Campus
Online Recycling Games
Professional Development Resources
- EarthWays Center: Thinking Beyond the 3R’s
- EarthWay Center: Clean Water Educator Training
- Sustainability Institute for Educators
Other Ideas
- Take a field trip to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), where recyclables get sorted.
- Republic Services: (636) 947-5959
- Take a field trip to the Brightside St. Louis’ Demonstration Garden. Brightside St. Louis: (314) 772-4646.
