Consider sending a student with your classroom plastic bottles and aluminum cans to one of the recycle centers.

When plastic bottles and aluminum cans are placed in these large recycle centers, student clubs receive the money generated from the plastic or aluminum. We are fortunate that the City of Livermore, GoGreen, EEK, Altamont Educational Advisory Committee and Waste Management have combined to provide this recycling system for LHS. All recycling is good, and it is even better when students can benefit from the money it generates at the local recycle center. Each time a club fills the dumpster out back with recyclables, the student club receives a check from $130-$156. Cool!

Please put your classroom paper, plastic bottles, and aluminum in a classroom recycling bin like in the picture below.

The classroom recycle bins are considered "Mixed Stream" recycling, which includes anything that you can put in your curbside recycle bins at home. This means paper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard. No garbage should go in these bins.
We have many blue and green classroom recycle bins on campus, and we can get more if we need them. Teachers are masters of their classroom, and so it would be good if teachers could keep an eye on their recycle bin, and promote the recycling of all paper, and other recyclables there. If we can keep the 1/2 full Starbucks, the gum, and the spilled chocolate shakes out of the recycle bins, it will make life better for our custodians. The goal is to generate as little actual trash as possible. We don't want our custodians to have to haul mountains of trash. And, we don't want it to fill our limited landfills. If you need more bins, or want plastic liners like in the photo, contact Bailey and we will make it happen.

Custodians will haul mixed stream recyclables in these new carts that carry one can for trash, and one can for recyclables.

Our LHS custodians now have these cool wheeled carts to haul trash (in black plastic liners) and mixed stream recyclables (in clear liners). Trash will go to the landfill. Recyclables are recycled by Waste Management Corporation. This is a good thing.