School Resources

Templates & One-Pagers for Schools

Use these downloadable one-pagers for resources and ideas related to the different roles needed in a school’s zero waste program, how Household Hazardous Waste should be handled at schools, ideas for packing a zero waste lunch, and more!

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Videos for Schools

A Day at a Zero Waste School

Introducing young people to zero waste behavior is a great way to install good habits that last a lifetime. See how the students, staff, faculty and administration of Bahia Vista Elementary in San Rafael work together to become a Zero Waste School.

Recycling is a Trip!

Dave the Recycling Fairy shows what happens to the stuff we throw away, and how it gets recycled into useful new stuff IF it is thrown in the right place.

Zero Waste Starts at Home

Dave the Recycling Fairy appears to point out that more stuff is not better…and that there are great ways to reduce your use.

ZunZun Recycling Assembly

Posters for Schools

Please use these 11″×17″ downloadable posters to encourage proper sorting of recyclables, compostables, and landfill material at your school. Poster links will open in a new browser tab or window.

Bay Cities Refuse

For Schools located in the Bay Cities Refuse Service areas including Marin City and Sausalito.

Bay Cities Refuse
11X17 Poster
Recyclables (pdf) (2MB)

Bay Cities Refuse 11X17 Poster Compostables (pdf) (3MB)

Bay Cities Refuse
11X17 Poster
Landfill (pdf) (2MB)

Marin Sanitary Service

For schools located in Marin Sanitary Service areas including Fairfax, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Larkspur, Las Gallinas Valley, Marinwood, Ross, Ross Valley, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Sleepy Hollow & Terra Linda.

Marin Sanitary Service 11X17 Poster Recyclables (pdf) (248KB)

Marin Sanitary Service 11X17 Poster Recyclables (pdf) 295KB

Marin Sanitary Service 11X17 Poster Compostables (pdf) (408KB)

Marin Sanitary Service 11X17 Poster Landfill (pdf) (545KB)

Mill Valley Refuse Service

For schools located in Mill Valley Refuse service areas including Almonte, Alto, Belvedere, Corte Madera, Homestead, Mill Valley, Strawberry & Tiburon.

Please note that Mill Valley Refuse will be phasing out the all brown recycling carts (for glass, plastic, and metal recycling) at the end of their useful life and replacing them with blue carts with a brown lid.

Mill Valley Refuse Service 11X17 Poster Recyclables (pdf) (2MB)

Mill Valley Refuse Service 11X17 Poster Recyclables (pdf) (1MB)

Mill Valley Refuse Service 11X17 Poster Compostables (pdf) (2MB)

Mill Valley Refuse Service 11X17 Poster Landfill (pdf) (2MB)

Recology Sonoma Marin

For schools located in Recology Sonoma Marin service areas including Bolinas, Forest Knolls, Inverness, Lagunitas, Marshall, Muir Beach, Nicasio, Olema, Point Reyes Station, San Geronimo, Stinson Beach, West Marin & Woodacre.