Single-Stream Recycling Program
In the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, the Environmental Club revived the declining recycling program throughout the High School. Despite the school's location in the Baltimore County area, complete with a single stream dumpster on campus, BT was not taking advantage of recycling all the materials it could. In order to resolve this problem, the Environmental Club collected about 45 cardboard boxes from companies in the community, painted them, and placed them in every classroom in the High School. The club also led a campaign educating the student body about what can and cannot be recycled.
Click below to download the student-made recycling poster present in classrooms and offices throughout the institution.
Click below to download the student-made recycling poster present in classrooms and offices throughout the institution.
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In order to ensure that the boxes continued to be used correctly, each member of the Environmental Club was assigned to a room and submitted a bi-weekly log, documenting that the sign and box were still present and the box was in good condition. This way, the recycling program would continue pushing the school in a "greener" direction. The room assignments spreadsheet and the recycle bin logger form were both publicly accessable via the Beth Tfiloh Environmental Club's website, bethtfiloh.com/environmentalclub.
In the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, some students continued to log their classrooms, but to expand the program once more, teachers throughout the entire institution were asked to log whether they had recycling bins in their classrooms. Receiving 62 responses, we began the process of ensuring every office and classroom in the building had a recycling capability. By the end of the process, we ordered over 80 recycling bins to be placed throughout the institution.
The presence of recycling bins in every room has elevated the the community's consciousness of sustainable practices. Students now have the opportunity to recycle in every classroom. By making environmentally friendly practices more accessible, the Environmental Club has encouraged students at Beth Tfiloh to make greener choices everyday, inside and outside of school.
The lower school also has a recycling committee made up of students that collect the recycling from all the classrooms and offices and takes it out to the proper dumpster.
In the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, some students continued to log their classrooms, but to expand the program once more, teachers throughout the entire institution were asked to log whether they had recycling bins in their classrooms. Receiving 62 responses, we began the process of ensuring every office and classroom in the building had a recycling capability. By the end of the process, we ordered over 80 recycling bins to be placed throughout the institution.
The presence of recycling bins in every room has elevated the the community's consciousness of sustainable practices. Students now have the opportunity to recycle in every classroom. By making environmentally friendly practices more accessible, the Environmental Club has encouraged students at Beth Tfiloh to make greener choices everyday, inside and outside of school.
The lower school also has a recycling committee made up of students that collect the recycling from all the classrooms and offices and takes it out to the proper dumpster.
PreSchool Recycling Art Projects
At BT, parents from around the school community collect various items that would normally be thrown away for the PreSchoolers to use in their art projects. Then, High Schoolers sort and organize these materials onto shelves in the PreSchool. PreSchoolers are encouraged to go to these shelves and search for materials that they can use creatively in their art projects.
Below, the Terrific Twos use recycled materials to make holiday noisemakers in March 2014 for the holiday of Purim, while learning an important Jewish lesson about avoiding ba’al tashchit, or needlessly wasting resources. Also, High Schoolers organize the shelves bursting with recycled items. Read more and see more pictures on Beth Tfiloh's website. |
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All-School Block Party Recycling Drive
At the annual school-wide block party, the Beth Tfiloh Environmental Club sponsored a recycling drive for the past several years, in partnership with the Beth Tfiloh Congregation Brotherhood and Sisterhood. At this drive, we connect members of the Beth Tfiloh community to various recycling companies. Materials recycled include:
On October 6, 2013 and on September 14, 2014 from 2:30-5:30 electronics and metal recycling and paper shredding was happening in the school parking lots sponsored by the high school environmental club.
Click below to download the 2014 mailer with recycling information:
https://www.bethtfiloh.com/ftpimages/230/download/download_1352297.pdf
- Paper and paper products with Vangel
- Scrap metal with Cambridge Iron & Metal
- Electronics with Vangel
On October 6, 2013 and on September 14, 2014 from 2:30-5:30 electronics and metal recycling and paper shredding was happening in the school parking lots sponsored by the high school environmental club.
Click below to download the 2014 mailer with recycling information:
https://www.bethtfiloh.com/ftpimages/230/download/download_1352297.pdf
Clothing Drive
Each year Beth Tfiloh organizes a used clothing drive to benefit a local shelter. Students organize and run this clothing drive. Instead of families throwing away clothes they no longer need they donate it to the clothing drive which is then given to a shelter. In November 2013, clothing was donated to the Wolfe Street Academy and in December 2014, clothing was donated to Hannah Moore, Beans and Bread, Pauls' Place, and Helping Up Mission.
Book Drive
On January 15, 2014 rather than families throw books away they were encouraged to donate them to the National Honor Society Book Drive. Read more on the facebook page here.
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