LAUSD Recycling Program

July 20, 2011

The City of Los Angeles, in partnership with the LAUSD, created a recycling program 5 years ago to educate the next generation of Angelenos and to provide free recycling service to all LAUSD campuses within the City.

This program is to get the school themselves to recycle. The schools have tons of paper, plastic, cardboard and other materials that go into the landfills. This program was developed for the following reasons:

To offer a free program to the LAUSD schools inside the city. Most commercial operations charge for a recycling program
To ensure that the collected materials will be recycled
To have an education aspect to the city's recycling program. To date, we have given presentations to over 95,000 students. The kids then bring this information home to their parents.

If parents already have residential recycling at home, they should NOT bring recycling materials to the school. This program is to have a recycling program ON the school campus, collecting the material that the school generates in its day to day business.

The small pilot program of 14 school is currently serving 650 schools across the City. The schools are provided a variety of blue bins and weekly service. All the materials that can be recycled at home can be recycled at the school. The following is a list of materials that can be recycled at the schools:

All Paper
All Plastics
Cardboard
Metal
Glass
Styrofoam
Aseptic Containers

In the Mid City West area, this program is at these LAUSD schools:

Carthay Center Elementary
Fairfax Visual Arts Magnet
Hancock Park Elementary
Laurel Early Education Center
Melrose Avenue Elementary
Westside Community Day School

If you have any questions about the program, please contact Steve Casares by phone at 213-485-3903 or by email at stevan.casares@lacity.org.

You can also follow the program on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/City-of-Los-Angeles-LAUSD-Recycling-Program/141183500812.