Author: carrief

Student’s from Mrs. Broderick’s Beyond Recycling Class prepared, set up and ran a booth at their school’s Spring Fling.  The booth had fun activities where players could test their recycling knowledge and learn more about where to recycle: small appliances (at the landfill), where to take hazardous waste (landfill on Saturday’s 10-4pm) and where to … Continued

Larry the Garbologist visited two Beyond Recycling classrooms to help do waste inventories.  Some of the surprising things that Larry found in the classroom’s garbage cans were food waste and items that could be recycled.  This inspired one of the classes to set up a compost bin in their classroom.  The classes discussed how to … Continued

Grade 5 Students from Lady Grey Elementary School took a field trip to the Golden Landfill and Bottle Depot this fall.  Students learned how waste is processed from the marshalling area where mattresses, shingles, metal and drywall are collected while waiting to be recycled.  We witnessed a garbage truck dumping a load and the compactor … Continued

To help celebrate Earth Day, students from Golden’s Lady Grey Elementary School planted vegetable and sunflower seeds to start in their classroom.  The students brought in post-consumer waste containers to re-use as vegetable pots.  We drilled holes into the bottoms to allow the extra water to drain out.  Students found the larger containers worked the … Continued

Is that corn?  I found a worm!  How deep do I plant this?  Smell this flower! Students from Blaine Broderick’s grade 5 class had the opportunity to spend some time with master gardener and seed saver Jean Dakin in her home garden, four doors down from Lady Grey Elementary School in Golden.  Jean has been … Continued