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Litter
Free School Zone
The Litter Free School Zone is a program for students, clubs, classes,
and even whole schools to keep their school zone litter free. Keeping their
school grounds litter free is an easy and fun way for students to work together,
learning valuable community leadership and responsibility skills, and gain a
respect for the environment and world around them.
The Litter Free School Zone is introduced to your school by Keep Knoxville
Beautiful with a class discussion format presentation about litter. During this
discussion we will learn exactly what litter is, why people litter, why should
we prevent litter, how we can prevent litter, and how the Litter Free School
Zone program works.
The Zero and One Club
Keep Knoxville Beautiful strongly encourages students to join the Zero and
One Club. To join the Zero and One Club, students volunteer to produce
"zero" litter and pick up "one" piece of litter every day.
The club is based on individuals making "one small step toward a litter
free community." If a single classroom of 25 students participates in one
day they will pick up 25 pieces of litter, in one month they will pick up 750
pieces of litter and in one year they will pick up 10,950 pieces of litter. That
is a huge impact on litter for such a small part of the population!
These programs, combined with the Talking Tree and Youth Advisory Board provide
litter-prevention and introductory environmental education to students in all
grades.
Minimum Requirements From the School
- There must be a designated faculty/staff
member to be the contact person.
- A student group (science class,
environmental or service club, multiple classes, etc.) must agree to be
responsible for implementing the program.
- Students must conduct periodic cleanups of
the campus.
- Recyclable (must be clean, etc.) items must
be separated from collected litter and taken to a recycling collection
center.
- Report graffiti to appropriate school
officials.
- At least one school event must be
litter-free - such as a sports events, assemblies, field trips, etc.
- Report activities in school publications,
bulletin board, website, etc.
- Report the results of these activities to
Keep Knoxville Beautiful.
Keep Knoxville Beautiful Provides
- A Litter-Free Schools manual with plenty of
tips for making the program work.
- Clean up supplies such as heavy gloves and
litterbags.
- An attractive Litter-Free School sign when
minimum program requirements have been met.
- Presentations about litter-prevention,
source reduction, buying recycled, composting, and many other topics.
- A speaker and material for in-service
training.
- Make periodic inspections (by your
invitation) of the Litter Free School Zone.
- Provide certificates of appreciation to all
students involved.
Participating Schools
Schools that are participating this year: Gresham Middle, Holston
Middle, Karns Middle, Mount Olive, Nature's Way Montessori, Northwest Middle,
Ritta Elementary, Shannon Dale Elementary, Vine Middle, West Valley Middle.
Schools that have participated in the
past: Adrian Burnett, Chilhowee
Intermediate, Holston Middle, Karns Middle, Lonsdale Middle, Mount Olive,
Norwood, Pond Gap, Ritta Elementary, Sarah Moore Greene Magnet, Shannon Dale
Elementary and Vine Middle
Schools that have received a sign:
Ball Camp Primary, Central High, Copper Ridge Elementary, Gresham Middle and
Northwest Middle. A list of schools that received signs last year were
covered by the News Sentinel.
For More Information
Please contact Emily Ditty for the Litter Free School Zone at Keep Knoxville
Beautiful at 521-6957 or
keepknox@discoveret.org.
She would be more than happy to talk or meet with you to work out a time that is
suitable for your classes or to discuss an lesson plan suitable for your
students.
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