This document summarizes the efforts of a group of students to reduce plastic and paper waste at their school. They have established an ECO-Club and set goals such as eliminating plastic water bottles and using reusable cups. Last year they started a recycling project and this year they ordered and sold reusable water bottles. Their efforts have helped reduce the school's carbon footprint and raise awareness of issues like deforestation and pollution caused by overuse of plastics and paper. The group engaged students through activities using index cards and online discussion to teach about these topics.

1. Making A Better CIPLC
Done By: Lama Jaber, Antonio Morales,
Blanca Trias, Alejandro Reyes, and Edgar Gomez

2. ACTIVITY

3. Activity
• Index Cards Questions & Facts:
1. Find a partner.
2. Ask him/her the ??.
3. Let him/her guess & then give them the answer.
Outside = Question
Inside = Answer

4. How / What We Did?
• Continued last years recycling project
• Educated our school community
• Started our goals
• ECO-Club
• Ordered and sold water bottles

5. Goals
• Water Bottles
• No more paper cups
• No more plastic cups in Cantina
• Reusable Cups
• Elimination of plastic water bottles being sold in
Cantina
• Decrease Straw use

6. Last & This Years
Accomplishments
• ECO- Club
• Paper & Plastic Committee
• Earth Week (each year)
• Straw-less
• Reusable Cups & Plates- NHS & PTO Events
• Cantina=Reusable Cups

7. Essential Question
How can we make a
better school campus by
decreasing plastic & paper use?

8. PAPER

9. Paper
• What is a carbon footprint?
• What is global warming?
• How do the two relate?
• Why should we reduce our carbon footprints?
• How have we reduced our carbon footprint since last
year?

10. What is Carbon Foot Print?
 Measure of CO2
 Bigger C.F.= increased CO2
 Greenhouse effect

11. What Is Global Warming?

12. How Do The Two Relate?

13. Why Reduce it?
• Environmental changes:
 Melting of ice caps = rise of sea level
 Planet getting warmer
 Extinction of ecosystem
• Global Warming:
 Alteration of the Ozone Layer

14. How have we reduced
CIPLC’s Carbon Footprint ?

15. How Does Paper Fit
Into the Equation?
 Consumption up 400% in last 40 years.
 35% of total trees cut used in
papermaking.
 Pollution > Deforestation.

16. ACTIVITY

17. Activity
• Log in to TodaysMeet
 Check Your E-mail for link
 Discuss/Answer the ???
 Comment as much as you can

Link:http://todaysmeet.com/ciplcgingroup2012

18. CIPLC Situation
• 30,000 sheets for 217
students per month.
• 7 sheets of paper per
student each day.
• Most paper used in
one-sided printing and
copying materials

19. Recollection Method
Box System: 1 to 1
– 1 classroom = 1 cardboard box
– Designed to raise awareness
– Rules:
1. Only paper used on both sides
2. No staples, tape, or glue.
3. Classify paper according to its color.

20. How Does This Help?

21. THIS YEAR/PLASTIC

22. What is Plastic?
• Do you know what’s plastic?
• 1862-begin
• % of plastic is in the world market?
• How its used?
• How much time does it take to degrade?

23. Effects on our Planet
• Animals
• Oceans & Canals
• Forest

26. This Year-Leading Plastic
• Water Bottle Ordering & Selling
 32oz.=30bsF.
160z.=30bsF.
Names Written
Staff free
• Distribution
• We sold aprox. 200 Water Bottles

28. ACTIVITY

29. Ending Activity
• Toss It Around:
1. Stand in a circle.
2. Throw the ball around from one person to
another.
3. Whoever catches it says: What they appreciated
about the group or experience? & What they plan
to do with what they have learned?
4. Pass it around to someone else.

30. Bibliography
• http://www.cabrillo.edu/~cfink/ES%2010/Chris%20Reeves%20CABRILLO%202
012.pdf
• http://senderosporvenezuela.com.ve/?p=813
• http://www.no-sea-and-earth-pollution.org/ALBATROSS-VENEZUELA.html
• http://chemistry.about.com/od/polymers/f/What-Is-Plastic.htm
• http://www.reportlinker.com/report/best/keywords/plastic?utm_sourc
e=adwords2&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Chemical_and_Mate
rials_ROW&utm_adgroup=Plastic_ROW&gclid=CJDYg5Wtz7ICFadlOgo
dHnoAsw
• http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/interestingrecyclingfacts/
• http://www.topix.com/forum/science/ecology/TDVKMMLI61GM6U6B9
• http://paperproject.org/paperfacts.html
• http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-
vortex/
• http://www.fws.gov/invasives/volunteersTrainingModule/pdf/outreach/interactive
_activities.pdf

33. PLASTIC IS FOREVER