The Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project (SLWRP) is featured in the December edition of Principal Leadership, a publication of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The edition focuses on green schools and uses a description of the SLWRP program and examples of projects from our schools to highlight ways that schools can be...
In 2008, StopWaste.Org commissioned a study of what we throw in the landfill. The 2008 Waste Characterization Study for Alameda County is the result of the study and contains many informative and shocking results.
As a county, we deposited nearly 1.2 million tons of waste in landfills in 2008. 1.2 million tons is a staggering number and difficult to...
Schools in Alameda County generate over 60,000 tons of landfill waste every year representing 4% of all waste sent to landfill in the county. StopWaste.Org and the Alameda County Office of Education are dedicated to helping students, teachers, and schools apply the 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot) to develop key academic skills and concepts while improving environmental sustainablity. The Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project (
SLWRP) supports teams of teachers, staff and students at middle and high schools in setting and achieving sustainability goals at their schools and in their communities.
