Learning Center
Organize a Recycling
Program
Collection containers (small and large), program and coordination assistance, banners and promotional materials. Click here for Recycling Fundraisers -- coordinate or donate.
Links to recycling container vendors.
Recycling Projects
OPALA
MENSA PROJECTS -- There's genius in recycling, and we want to encourage such creative thinking and application with our kids. Select from a list of project ideas for your school and classroom. Request assistance through the Recycling Teaching Partner (RTP) program. In order to motivate and/or reward students, we also offer up to $100.00 in recycled products for your recycling projects as a component of the RTP program. Rewards may include recycled pencils, pens, lanyards, bookcovers or recycled content bags. See information on the RTP program below.
Projects
and reports submitted by teachers and students.
Click here for a printable
27-page Recycled
Art Projects Guide.
Recycling Teaching
Partners (RTP)
The City partners with a number of qualified recycling education professionals who are available to come to your school to assist in educating, motivating or coordinating recycling activities. Teachers are requested to use the Opala IQ take-home activity booklet provided by the City to ensure that what they learn at school is shared with families at home. In order to motivate and/or reward students, we also offer up to $100.00 in recycled products for your recycling projects as a component of the RTP program.
Schools can request Recycling Teaching Partners’ assistance for a maximum of $500 per school per year. Here’s what you do: 1) Think about a recycling project or activity you would like to do in your classroom or on your campus. Some project ideas are presented above in the Recycling Projects section or propose your own project. 2) Review the list of qualified Recycling Teaching Partners, and select the one you want to assist you to coordinate or enhance your recycling project. 3) Complete the Recycling Project Proposal Form and submit it to the City.
Recycling Project Proposal form (Request for RTP)
RTP Recycled Products Order Form
Recycling Teaching Partners Evaluation Form
Recycling
Teaching Partner overview
Recycling
Teaching Partner projects in the works
Qualified Recycling Teaching Partners (click on each RTP for a full description):
Recycling Education Performances
Talkin' Trash – James McCarthy and Leslie Kline musical education
It Starts with a Can – The Opala Players bring an interactive educational play to your school
Recycling Education Workshops
The Green House – "Garbology," waste audits, composting, vermicomposting, and more; *NEW* Green Ribbons Program geared to "Achieve Zero Solid Waste in Schools"
Waikiki Worm – Vermicomposting
The
Hawaii Nature Center – Recycling and composting in relation to the natural world
Eve's Trees – Furoshiki and other waste reduction techniques
The Kokua Hawaii Foundation – 3R’s recycling program implementation
Recycling Field Trips
Customize a Tour de Trash for your class or sign up for a scheduled tour. We offer half-day morning tours to a few important recycling and waste management facilities in the Campbell Industrial area for students grade 6 and up. Please call Tamara Farnsworth at 768-3448 for more information.
Educational Resources
and Tools
Weblinks to books, games, project kits, educational websites, online activities.
Opala IQ Book
Recycled Product Prizes
Recycling Graphics,
Video, PowerPoints, Music
Graphic files for creating your own flyers, posters, newsletters or inserting into papers and reports.
Video clips of TV spots on recycling and illegal dumping.
PowerPoint presentations on recycling, waste management.
Recycling songs written and performed by Henry Kapono, Jack Johnson and the Lava Jam Band. Music, lyrics and guitar chords.
Recycled Art - photos from the City's award-winning Art of Recycling Calendar series.
Fostering Sustainable
Behavior
Getting People to
Do the Right Thing -- or how to get more people to do more
of the right things to protect our environment. Learn
about Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr's approach in community-based
social marketing.
Organize a Recycling Program