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Hold a School or Youth Group "Paper Saving Day"
Plan a day for your school, synagogue or youth group where your goal is to
avoid throwing out as much paper as possible by reducing, reusing, and
recycling paper. Make arrangements with a local supermarket to borrow paper
bags. Have students decorate them with paper saving messages. Return the
bags to the store for customers to use, reuse, and recycle.
Leading up to the day...
- Ask children to bring to school products and packaging made out of recycled paper such as paper towels, cereal boxes, notebooks, etc... and investigate which stores stock recycled products. What can be done to encourage stores to stock more recyclables?
- Design posters (out of recycled paper, of course!) to remind students and teachers to use both sides of the paper, to use recycled paper and to advertise "Saving Paper Day."
- Investigate paper purchasing policies. Have kids work in teams to find out their school or synagogue's purchasing policies for copy paper, printer paper, office pads, arts and crafts paper, paper towels, tissues, and toilet tissue, etc. The investigation will discover...Is the paper recycled? What percentage? Any post-consumer content? Is cost a factor in the paper purchased? How does this relate to its recycled content? Where does the paper come from? Think of ideas for how to increase the school's/synagogue's recycled content in paper—including how to overcome possible higher costs.
- Find out more about the recycling program in your community. Find out: What kind of paper is currently being recycled? Can the program be expanded to different types of paper? Can more residents, stores, offices be encouraged to recycle?
- Have the children sign a "Paper Saver" challenge petition! On average, kids can save between 15% and 20% of paper they use a year. That's between 90 lbs. of paper a year!
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