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SWACO School Waste Reduction Programming Survey
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First Name
Last Name
Title
Name of School District
Name of School or Building
Phone
Email
Are you currently involved in the coordination of waste reduction and recycling educational activities at your building?
Yes
No
If so, please explain your level of involvement.
Are you currently involved in the coordination of collection of materials at your building (e.g., recycling services, teacher or staff organizer, custodial)?
Yes
No
If so, please explain your level of involvement.
If you do not identify with the above roles but are involved, please describe your level of involvement with waste reduction and recycling at your building.
STUDENT EDUCATION SECTION - The following questions will help SWACO understand your current waste reduction and recycling education programs and resources. If you are not a teacher, these questions may not be applicable to you.
1. Please indicate the level of support/interest from staff in offering waste reduction and recycling education to students.
Very Strong
Strong
Neutral
Weak
Very weak
Unknown
Please provide any additional comments below.
2. Does your school provide waste reduction and recycling education (e.g., curricula, lessons, activities, etc.) to students?
Yes
No
Unknown
If yes, please briefly describe the types of programs provided.
If yes, please check all grades that receive this type of educational programming.
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
If yes, please rate the impact of the educational programming.
0-3 = Poor
4-6 = Average
7-10 = High
Please briefly explain your selection below.
3. What are the main motivations to provide waste reduction and recycling education to students? Please check all that apply.
The topic correlates with the benchmarks and standards for the grade level that I teach
To provide students with environmental education not otherwise being provided by my school
It is a topic that the school and/or staff value
My school does not provide waste reduction and recycling education to students
Unknown
Please provide any additional comments below.
4. Please choose the top five resources that would be most helpful for starting or expanding waste reduction and recycling education at your school.
Downloadable curricula, lessons and activities
In-class presentations with hands-on activities
Downloadable videos
Assembly programs conducted by performers
Recognition or awards program for student programs and initiatives
Field trips to a landfill and/or other relevant disposal or recycling facilities
Teacher workshops
Poster or other competitions
Examples of case studies of other school programs and initiatives
Unknown
Please provide other examples or additional comments below.
5. What is the best way to measure learning outcomes for student education? Please check all that apply.
Surveys
Pre and Post tests
Exit Slips or other written reflections on information learned used to help students process new concepts and express their thoughts about new information.
Please provide additional thoughts and ideas for measuring learning outcomes below.
6. What are the best ways to provide waste reduction and recycling education resources to staff? Please check all that apply.
Email
Newsletter
Provide downloadable resources via a website
US Postal Service
Social Media
Teacher conference or workshop
Please describe other ideas below.
7. What do you feel are the greatest challenges toward teaching students about waste reduction and recycling? Please check all that apply.
Topic does not correlate with the benchmarks and standards taught at my grade level
Do not have sufficient support resources like lesson plans and activities
Lack of support/interest from staff
Lack of interest from students
Lack of financial resources and funding
Lack of recycling opportunities at school
Unknown
Please describe other challenges below.
8. Please provide any additional comments, thoughts or ideas regarding waste reduction and recycling education below.
WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SECTION - The following questions will help SWACO understand your current waste reduction, recycling collection and disposal practices.
9. Please list the top five materials (e.g., paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, food, electronics, etc.) that you believe make-up your building's waste stream, from greatest to least, in the box below.
10. Does your building currently recycle?
Yes - Please start with question 11
No - Please start with question 21
PLEASE COMPLETE QUESTIONS 11-27 ONLY IF YOUR BUILDING CURRENTLY PARTICIPATES IN WASTE REDUCTION OR RECYCLING ACTIVITIES.
11. What is the motivation for reducing waste and recycling in your building? Please check all that apply.
District or school policy
Certification compliance
Cost reduction
Financial incentives
Environmental stewardship
Please provide any additional comments below.
12. Please select the items that are currently collected for recycling or diversion from the landfill.
Paper
Cardboard
Plastic bottles
Metal cans
Carton containers
Glass containers
Food (donation or composting)
Electronics
Plastic film
Scrap metal
Pallets
Item donation
Yard waste
Please describe other collected materials not listed.
13. Please rate your current waste reduction and recycling performance.
0-3 = Poor
4-6 = Average
7-10 = High
Please briefly explain your selection below.
14. Please estimate the percentage of your building's indoor waste bins that are accompanied by a recycling bin.
0-25%
25-50%
51-75%
76-100%
15. Does your building currently track weight data with respect to your solid waste and/or recycling?
Yes
No
Unknown
If yes, please describe how weight is tracked below.
16. Do you believe custodial staff understand and participate in waste reduction and recycling practices at your building?
Always
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Unknown
17. Do you believe administrative staff, teachers and/or students understand and participate in waste reduction and recycling practices at your building?
Always
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Unknown
18. Please select the types of outreach and engagement provided to staff and students on waste reduction and recycling practices.
PA announcements
Signage
In-school campaign
Informative video
Green Team
Orientation
Unknown
Please provide any additional comments below.
19. Do you feel more time could be spent on providing outreach and engagement to students and staff on waste reduction and recycling practices?
Yes
No
Please provide any additional comments below.
20. How do you promote your current waste reduction and recycling efforts?
Newletters
Website
Internal communications
Social media
Press releases
No current promotion
Other, please explain below.
21. What is the level of support for implementing or expanding the waste reduction, diversion and recycling within your building?
Very strong
Strong
Neutral
Weak
Very weak
Please provide any additional comments below.
22. Please choose the top four most important incentives/resources that you feel would increase your building's desire to implement or expand waste diversion and recycling activities.
Cost incentives
Student education and resources
Staff training resources
Recycling resources (waste and recycling assessment, signage, etc.)
Personalized consultation
Recognition/Awards
Please provide any additional comments below.
23. What are your greatest challenges to implementing or expanding waste reduction and recycling programs? Please check all that apply.
Cost concerns
Lack of resources
Lack of understanding and training
Operational/procedural concerns
Lack of space
Unknown
Please describe other challenges below.
24. Which of the following list of cost incentives would help your building implement or expand a recycling program? Please check all that apply.
Cost savings achieved through group purchasing (e.g., recycled-content supplies, non-hazardous cleaning supplies, etc.)
Cost savings from operational efficiency
Free/reduced costs on recycling equipment (e.g., recycling containers, carts, etc.)
Incentives to offset costs of expanding a recycling program
Please provide any additional comments below.
25. Which of the resources do you feel would be helpful to implement or expand recycling in your building? Please check all that apply.
On-site recycling program implementation consultation assistance
Having a reference for ‘Best Practices’ and/or ‘How to Implement’ waste reduction and recycling programs in buildings
Waste assessment tool for measuring waste generation and materials diversion Cost benefit calculator
Cost benefit calculator
A monitoring form to measure the volume of solid waste and recycling in outdoor dumpsters
Please provide any additional comments below.
26. Please choose the top four most important training resources that you feel would help start or expand your waste diversion and recycling program.
Staff field trips to SWACO's landfill
Staff field trips to a material recovery facility
Onsite staff training
Onsite implementation assistance
Recycling signage
Tools for staff training
Waste contract negotiation training
Please provide any additional comments below
27. Please provide any additional comments, thoughts or ideas regarding the implementation or expansion of waste reduction and recycling efforts that you have below.
We sincerely appreciate your participation and time spent completing this survey. We are excited to share the results with you at the Design Group meeting!
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