Initiatives for 2009-2010 School Year

Over the past year, the YMCI Environmental Council has introduced many waste reducing innovations around York Mills. Some of which includes…

• Cafeteria/Hall monitoring in order to educate students about correct bin use
• One-sided paper boxes in every class
• Introducing an order of Cascade’s 100% post-consumer fibre paper to staff
• Using bulletin boards for club posters
• A battery recycling program

Waste Audit Results [2010-2011]

On April 8th, 2011, members of the Environmental Council participated in a waste audit with a representative from EcoSchools. In brief, the results were as follows: 15% garbage; 60% compost; 14% recyclable and lots of one-sided paper.

Detailed results of the audit can be viewed in the following documents: 1, 2, 3.

Waste Audit Results [2009-2010]

On April 7th, 2010, members of the Environmental Council conducted a waste audit in order to determine the percentage of recyclables inside the garbage. Here are the results.

A Word document of these results can also be found here.

Using these results, the members of Environmental Council created a display case outside of the office in order to communicate the results to the rest of the school.