A Guide to School Recycling
This publication outlines five steps to creating a school recycling program. To request hard copies of the guide for your school's "green team" contact Erica Trout at 804-302-4231 or
download a PDF version.
Virginia Department of Education School Recycling Guidelines
In 2010 the Virginia DOE issued a memo to all K-12 school superintendents with
recycling guidelines.
Download Recycling Signs
Virginia Vendors by Region
The first step in creating your school's recycling program is determing how the recycling will be collected. Here is a list of companies who help schools recycle. Please let us know if your company should be added to the list.
Northern Virginia
Weyerhaeuser- (804) 232-2386
Environmental Shredding and Recycling: paper, cans, plastics and cardboard
Todd Dubose
703-740-7048
www.environmentalsr.com
Potomac River Watershed
TFC Recycling- paper aluminum, cardboard, plastic bottles; Tim Lee at (757) 871-4061
SBM Site Services- 804-452-5205
SP Recycling- newspapers, white paper, magazines & catalogs; 804-359-1080, www.sprecycling.com
Weyerhaeuser- (804) 232-2386
Tidewater
TFC Recycling- paper aluminum, cardboard, plastic bottles; Tim Lee at (757) 871-4061
SP Recycling- newspapers, white paper, magazines & catalogs; 804-359-1080, www.sprecycling.com
Recycling & Disposal Solutions- Virginia, 757-393-4737
Weyerhaeuser- (804) 232-2386
Southwest Virginia
Recycle Easy, David Roberts- P.O. Box 3442 Lynchburg, VA 24503 (434) 665-2708 or (434) 929-2332
Dean’s Waste Management- 276-690-2424
Southwest Sanitation (paper shredding)-276-988-8110
Sonoco Recycling (paper)- 843-339-6229
Waste Management's Iris Glen Environmental Center (423) 926-8375
Allied Waste-(423) 357-1836
MXI Environmental-Peggy Snead (276) 628-6636
Other Types of Recycling Programs
Text Books
SP Recycling- 804-359-1080, www.sprecycling.com
Cell Phone Recycling (Fundraiser)
AAA Environmental
(866) 332-2234
Ink Jet Cartridges (Fundraiser)
FreeRecycling
(949) 363-8201
Clothes (Fundraiser)
Green Earth Recycling
(804) 639-3069
Computers
AERC Recycling
(804) 677-1895
Creative Recycling
(800) 388-3961
Feel free to use this letter as a template and email it to your school board officials. This letter has helped create interest in school recycling in other school districts. Contact VRA if this letter generates a meeting to discuss school recycling. We would be happy to give a presentation on the importance of school recycling programs.
School Recycling in July 2007
We surveyed schools in the summer of 2007 to find out how many school districts in the state are already recycling. We found only 10 districts that already offered recycling in all of their schools. As the VRA works to promote recycling in schools we will reflect on this map our progress.
