School Recycling
Metro Nashville Public School Recycling Program
Metro Nashville Public School System has a recycling program through its contract with Allied Waste. Schools receive a recycling dumpster. Additionally, some schools host Metro Public Works public recycling drop offs on their campus.
Public Works staff is working with the schools to encourage & support their recycling efforts. If your school does not yet have a recycling dumpster, please ask the principal to contact Sharon Smith, Metro Public Works, 862-8715
If your recycling dumpster needs to be emptied
please
call the MNPS Operation Department at 259-8744
MNPS School Recycling Dumpsters Now Accept
Everything! As of
the beginning of the 2008-09 school year, the MNPS recycyling
program now accepts: PAPER, CARDBOARD, PLASTIC CONTAINERS,
METAL CANS! Please see details below.
How to have a successful school recycling program:
- See our tips, see photos from other Metro Schools, and learn from the best practices and experiences of other MNPS schools!
- Recycling Contest! Enter your school in the Excellence in Recycling Contest. Download contest rules: pdf or Word Document
- Recycling Education Programs - Metro Beautification offers programs for all ages, K-12.
- Incentive Prizes: Students who give recycling presentations to other students in their school are eligible to receive prizes! Download a Student Presentation Reporting Sheet and start winning!
- Free field trip to the Recycling Center. Come see where the stuff you recycle goes and what happens to it!
Recycle at School Sports Events!This fall Keep Tennessee Beautiful (KTnB) and the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) have teamed up as part of a corporate partnership to better educate students, coaches, officials and principals on the importance of recycling and litter collection. Click on TSSAA logo to learn more.
What
can be recycled at your school:
Download
a flyer to post in classrooms! pdf
version or Microsoft
Word Version
ALL PAPER: office paper, magazines, junk mail, newspaper, computer paper, notebook paper, phone books, paperback books, construction paper
ALL BOXES: cardboard boxes, food boxes (clean - no food), brown paper bags. All boxes should be broken down and placed in the recycling dumpster.
ALL PLASTIC CONTAINERS #1-7: drink bottles and their caps, detergent & cleaner bottles and their caps, yogurt/cottage cheese and other dairy "tubs" and their lids (please empty containers)
ALL METAL CANS: food and drink cans (please empty cans)
School Recycling Program Highlights:
During school year 2006-07 the MNPS recycling program was expanded to include 80 schools. Nashville School of the Arts received the 2007 Top Recycling School Award ~ a $250 award from Allied Waste Industries and other prizes from Metro Public Works and Metro Beautification.
Allied Waste and Metro Nashville Public Schools began a pilot recycling program in April 2006 beginning with schools in the Hunters Lane Cluster. Eleven schools were involved in the pilot program. Metro Public Works Divisions, Waste and Beautification & Environment Commission, provided operational and educational support of the program. Neely's Bend Middle School received the Excellence in Recycling Award. Metro Beautification & Environment Commission hosted a luncheon for the faculty and staff. Allied Waste Industries presented a $250 award to the school.