Over 90 children, parents, and teachers from Escondido Elementary, located on campus, walked over to the Stanford Recycling Center to learn about best practices in waste reduction. The kids rotated through four active and engaging stations: a tour of the recycling center, a waste reduction relay, a sorting game, and a story about a kid who helps his community recycle. Kids (and parents and teachers) learned why we recycle, how we sort the materials at the recycling center, and where the materials go. They also learned the priority of waste reduction and reuse over recycling, composting, and landfilling by running a relay race with items that could be reused. Lastly, playing a very fast game, they learned how to sort their waste properly. Everyone had a great time learning how to conserve natural resources.

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http://escondido.pausd.org/