What Ladera is doing to "Go Green":

  • Formed new PTO Green Committee to start and create awareness for a recycling program at school, as well as to help educate and encourage Ladera families and students to act in eco-friendly ways.
  • Paper Recycling: Containers will be available in classrooms and office to collect waste paper for recycling. Volunteers are needed to move paper waste containers to local recycling center on a weekly basis.
  • Education: Teachers will introduce recycling program and incentives for their classrooms, and develop lessons on the importance and benefits of recycling
  • Bottles/Cans Recycling: Containers will be available at the lunch tables and throughout school grounds to collect empty plastic and aluminum beverage containers. Volunteers are needed to move recyclable containers to local recycling center on a weekly basis

How you can help: Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse!

Participate in Ladera’s Recycling Program

  • Volunteer to be on the Green Committee and/or volunteer to take recyclables to recycling center. E-mail us your interest to help out.
  • Encourage your children to recycle at school (paper, plastic drink bottles, etc.) Ladera has recycling bins in the school lobby to recycle cell phones, ink jet and laser cartridges. There are also bins to recycle plastic bags, and look for bins to be coming to recycle plastic water bottles.
  • Pack school lunches and water in reusable containers

At Home

  • A brighter idea: Switch to Compact Fluorescent Lifts (CFLs) – they last up to 10 times longer than traditional bulbs and use only a fraction of the energy; saving you money over their lifespan. If just 1 million households each replaced 4 traditional lightbulbs with Compact Fluorescents (CFL), we’d eliminate 900,000 tons of greenhouse gases.
  • Re-fill it up: 1.5 million tons of plastic are used to make bottles every year, a waste that could instead power electricity in 250,000 homes.
  • Dial it down: Turning down your thermostat just 1 degree can cool your heating costs by 3%
  • Cool Threads: Wash your clothes in cold water and save yourself up to $400 a year in bills.
  • Reduce Trash: If just 1 million people cut down their trash my 10%, we could reduce our yearly CO2 emissions by as much as 50,000 tons
  • Put your computers to sleep: Computers use up to 70% less electricity when you put them to sleep instead of using a screensaver

Shopping

  • Bag the habit: Globally, we use as many as 1 million new plastic bags every MINUTE at a cost of 2.2 billions of oil a year. Go reusable whenever, wherever. Bring your plastic bags to Ladera to recycle. Ladera is participating in the Walmart Kids Recycling Challenge.
  • Pack it down: Over 25% of your daily household waste consists of excessive packaging used to ship your purchases to the shelf. Next time you’re at the market, shop around for less packaging.
  • Support companies with top environmental records and future-forward products.
  • Transportation: Walk to school, ride a bike, carpool

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