MPE is the 2007-08 Roswell’s Environmental School of the Year!

Our program is underway for the 2008-09 school year.

An outdoor classroom has begun including a planting area for each grade level, a dry composting area, and possibly a vermin-composting area (worm composting). If you are knowledgeable about any of these areas, please contact Ms. Michaud via email here: Michaud@fultonschools.org.

Additionally, formation of 2 central recycling locations within the school for large items such as cardboard and plastics is in the works. Ms. Welch’s 5^th grade will collect aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and cardboard from these recycling stations each week on Friday. If you have ideas or wish to help, contact any member of the Evergreen School Committee or Theresa in the front office.

Mountain Park is an Evergreen School. That means we are dedicated as a community to help protect and learn more about our local environment. Check out the web site for more information about the Evergreen School programs.

To become an Evergreen School, it is required to outline a plan for 4 conservation goals to be achieved during theschool year. We accomplished these goals in the 2005-2006 school year:

ý Create an official Evergreen School Committee

ý Expand the current recycling programs to include cardboard

ý Perform a waste audit

ý Perform a beautification day at MPE and try to include a rain garden

In 2007-08 Ms. Welch’s third graders and Ms. Searcy’s talented and gifted students started a service learning project to expand the recycling program at MPE. One goal of this project was to establish a recycling center and continue to recycle items such as paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, ink cartridges, sneakers, and aluminum cans.

See more below in the links section.

2007-08 Evergreen School Committee:

Recycling Coordinator	Marineli Dal Cerro	marineli@dalcerro.com
Teacher Representative Items other than paper: Aluminum Plastic (water bottles etc.) Cardboard/paperboard Printer cartridges	Heather Welch, 5^th grade	welchh@fultonschools.org
Outdoor Classroom Teacher Rep.	Yanique Michaud, 2^nd grade	Michaud@fultonschools.org

Do you wish to be a part of our Conservation Program? Please contact any member of the Evergreen School Committee.

Evergreen School Program:

Laura Aikens

City of Roswell

38 Hill Street, Suite 235

Roswell, Georgia 30075

Phone: (770) 641-3742

Fax: (770) 641-3750

Email: laikens@ci.roswell.ga.us

www.roswellgov.com

http://www.roswellrecycles.com/

http://www.keeproswellbeautiful.org/

In order to keep the grounds around the school looking neat, we have worked with Hands On Atlanta to perform a beautification day. In the future, we hope to install a rain garden. This type of garden is planted so that rain water from the impervious areas of the school drain to it. Instead of the water flowing to the street gutters, the rain soaks into the soil in the garden.

Mountain Park Elementary is proud to be an Evergreen School through the Keep Sandy Springs North Fulton Beautiful/City of Roswell/City of Alpharetta coalition. The 2004-2005 school year was the first year that MPE was an Evergreen School. An Adopt-a-Stream Program was established, a recycling program was implemented, and a beautification day was performed.

MPE continues to monitor Rocky Creek through the Adopt-a-Stream program. David Smith from Ecological Solutions leads a volunteer group through a sampling event. Both water quality monitoring and biological assessments are performed. Since its inception, scout troops and other volunteer groups have performed the adopt-a-stream monitoring. Results have been sent to the City of Roswell.

See the recycling center logo contest winners: http://mpes.org/recognition/0708recyclinglogo.htm

Mountain Park recycles:

Paper recycling bins are located in every classroom, office and work room. Students and teachers place all refuse paper into those bins. They are collected by volunteers and picked up by the City of Roswell each week.

Paper recyclables: adding machine tape, phone messages, colored paper, envelopes, brochures, copy paper, newsletters, post-it-notes, paper with tape, lined legal pad, school tablets, or notebook paper.

(keep separate from paper)

 Ink cartridges are donated by families and by the school and are sent to a recycling center and a fee is given to MPE in return. A collection bin is located in the PTA office.

Tennis shoes are collected twice a year. The shoes are then taken to Nike Town where they are then brought to a recycling center.  Usually boxes for sneakers are located in the main lobby and at the carpool area.

Throughout the school building there are several plastic bins for plastic recyclables with a number of 1 or 2 PETE. To find out what number is on your item, look for a triangle. The number in the center determines the type of plastic. Remove lid (lids are not recyclable) and RINSE thoroughly. You do not need to remove the label.

Plastics #3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or any other number other than #1 or #2 are not accepted.

Throughout the school building there are several plastic bins for cardboard recyclables. MPE recycles cardboard and paperboard food containers like cereal boxes, shoe boxes, chipboard, and brown paper bags.

Corrugated cardboard like moving boxes should be broken down and flattened. Plans are underway to create a more central location for these items.

(Sometimes made of paper with plastic or aluminum coating).

MPE recycles cardboard and paperboard food containers like cereal boxes, shoe boxes, chipboard, and brown paper bags.

Rinse these containers, flatten and put with cardboard recyclables. Plans are underway for a cafeteria recycling bin to place empty drink boxes, milk cartons, and juice cartons.

Aluminum cans are accepted at MPE. Don’t forget to rinse thoroughly!

Welch's Class Adopts Sea Turtle
Recycling Center Logo Contest Winners
Welch's 3rd Grade Recycling Center Service Learning Project
Searcy, Rivers to Reefs
Searcy's Class adopts Red Tailed Hawk, American Bald Eagle
Welch's Class adopts endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Searcy's Class Finalists in Governor’s Water Conservation Contest
MPE World Turtle Day

If you would like more information or would like to volunteer to help with recycling please call the MPE office or contact a member of the Evergreen School Committee.

Recycling is so EASY! It is like pushing that easy button!!!

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