Area of Concern
I was good enough to eat, but you threw my wrapper in the street.
Lend a helping hand, just put me in the can. To reduce and reuse, pass on old clothes and shoes. Follow this cycle,
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle.
Last year a seed was planted in the 3.2 square miles of East Orange
by Project CLEAN UP, a CmPS team from EAst Orange by adopting a lot to beautify and make usable by the
schools and community. This year we want to make that seed grow and watch it as it develops and grows bigger.
The East Orange School District is an urban school district located
just west of Newark, NJ. There are approximately 11,740 students attending their twenty schools. Grade levels
range from preschool through twelfth grade. We saw a need to educate them on recycling, reusing, and reducing litter,
as well as, continue to make the lot we adopted into a usable area for the schools and community.
We believe that local businesses, community organizations, higher education,
and foundations, as well as parents, students, the City of East Orange, the Board of Education, and district staff all have
a stake in making East Orange a cleaner andm ore environmentally friendly community. "With the effort of our citizens,
Project CLEAN UP and my Administration, we will be able to keep our high levels of recycling and decrease
the garbage tonnage," Mayor Bowser, East Orange.
On any given day, the City of East Orange Solid Waste and Recycling
Team picks up recycling, garbage, and bulky trash. The problem of inadequate community awareness and a complete lack
of effective education promotes positive social and environmental change among young and old people alike is what will restrict
a town or city becoming an environmentally stable community. Last years team did not do an adequate job of informing
others about recycling or environmental education. We need to reach out and do more research, as well as, inform
others of the need to recycle, reuse, and reduce litter.
We need to develop recycling education programs, under the partnership
of the East Orange Public Works Department and CmPS Team of East Orange, which reach schools within an area, impacting
upon people of all ages encouraging them to take pride in their community and to be environmentally responsible. Increasing
awareness of where this planet is heading and what can and must be done to save it is a priority. The lack of understanding
of this issue is worldwide. Perhaps, we need to focus our vision on the premise of 'think global, act local' a town or city could become a haven for environmental awareness that would spread globally. If we dream of the
world tomorrow, and then create a plan of action now of how we want it to be maybe we can save the world. Programs
that teach children and adults about becoming environmental experts in real estate law, safety and environmental "Right ot
Know" laws, spreading the word to schools in East Orange, the county, the state, the United States, and globally about reusing,
reducing and recycling litter. These programs would effectively raise the awareness of the importance of recycling in
their part of the world and branch out globally.
We, the CmPS team of East Orange, decided to address the problem of
litter and recycling education in East Orange and beyond, as well as, make our adopted lot a usable, productive place for
citizens to utilize.
