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CleanScapes Encourages Snoqualmie Students to Think Beyond Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Just like the Cascade View 4th graders she teaches,  Elizabeth Cronin can also learn something new each day.  During a class presentation from local waste company, Cleanscapes,  Mrs. Cronin learned Starbucks coffee cups and lids can be recycled – as long as they are rinsed out first.  She admitted what great information this was, because as the CVES Green Team Leader, she’d been told something different.

This week the Cascade View Green Team invited CleanScapes out to teach its 4th graders everything they ever wanted to know about garbage, recycling and composting.  And these kids wanted to know it all.  They got to sort garbage (stage props so clean garbage) and decide what bin it belonged in – compost, recycle or compost.  They were then shown photos and taught what happens at recycling and composting plants – from start to finish.   They learned about the big “L” word when it comes to garbage – landfill.  They saw photos of garbage filled streets in an Italian village when their town landfill reached capacity.  That one really grossed then out!

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