DCPS Recycles! 2018 Honor Roll
(Washington, D.C.) – The DC Department of General Services (DGS) announced the DCPS Recycles! 2018 Honor Roll today.. DGS congratulates the 57 schools that made the list for “Recycling Right” this school year. These schools demonstrated, at a minimum, school-wide recycling of paper in classrooms and common areas, or organics and mixed recyclables in cafeterias and kitchens.
Twenty-seven of these schools are honored with distinction for consistent school wide paper recycling in addition to recycling organics, cardboard, and mixed recyclables in their cafeterias and kitchen.
This follows the announcement honoring schools for “Reducing First” by participating in DGS’ DC Reduce First! Challenge: Plastic Edition. This challenge promoted reducing plastic waste in schools, which aligned with this year’s official Earth Day theme of eliminating plastic pollution.
“Establishing model school recycling programs throughout the city is imperative for a Zero Waste DC,” says DGS Director Greer Johnson Gillis. “The DCPS Recycles! Honor Roll provides schools a benchmark by which to measure their own success, and brings us closer to a truly greener, cleaner, and Sustainable DC.”
During Earth Month this year, Mann Elementary School (Ward 3) was selected as the DCPS Recycles! Honor Roll 2018 success story for embodying the spirit that “every day is Earth Day” when it comes to recycling.
“Recycling can be the cornerstone of any solid sustainability initiative. Green state-of-the-art facilities like Mann Elementary embody the DGS mission, and use recycling to educate and empower their entire school community,” said Zach Dobelbower, DGS Associate Director for Sustainability.
Schools across all eight wards of the city made the 2018 Honor Roll, and can be spotted on the newly updated DCPS Recycles! interactive maps!
Mann Elementary School (Ward 3), Burroughs Elementary School (Ward 5), and C.W. Harris Elementary School (Ward 7) shine as gold stars for accepting the designation as “DCPS Recycles! Ambassador Schools. These schools have been honored as a DCPS Recycles! Success Story of the year and are willing to host other schools for best practice sharing visits.
These seventeen schools showed continuing excellence by making the Honor Roll with Distinction for a third year in a row: Bancroft Elementary School @ Sharpe (Ward 1), C.W. Harris Elementary School (Ward 7), Deal Middle School (Ward 3), Garfield Elementary School (Ward 8), HD Cooke Elementary School (Ward 1), Hearst Elementary School (Ward 3), Ketcham Elementary School (Ward 8),
Key Elementary School (Ward 3), Mann Elementary School (Ward 3), Maury Elementary School (Ward 6), Orr Elementary School (Ward 8), Powell Elementary School (Ward 4), School Without Walls @ Francis Stevens (Ward 2), School-Within -School at Goding (Ward 6), Stoddert Elementary School (Ward 3), Thomson Elementary School (Ward 2), and Van Ness Elementary School (Ward 6).
Every newly-modernized school that DGS re-opened in fall made the Honor Roll with Distinction for the first time: Duke Ellington School of the Arts (Ward 2), Garrison Elementary School (Ward 2), Marie Reed Elementary School (Ward 1), and Watkins Elementary School (Ward 6). Duke Ellington School of the Arts (Ward 2) became only the second high school to make the Honor Roll with Distinction (Cardozo Education Campus was the first, and achieved Honor Roll with Distinction in 2017).
Other schools on the Honor Roll for the first time include: Peabody ES (Ward 6), Brent Elementary School (Ward 6) and Browne Education Campus (Ward 5).
Did your school make this year’s Honor Roll? Check out the DCPS Recycles! 2018 Honorees list today!
HONOR ROLL WITH DISTINCTION (27 schools)
Mann Elementary School
Burroughs Elementary School
C.W. Harris Elementary School
Van Ness Elementary School
Bancroft Elementary School
Cardozo Education Campus
Deal Middle School
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Garfield Elementary School
Garrison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Hearst Elementary School
Janney Elementary School
Ketcham Elementary School
Key Elementary School
Langdon Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Moten Elementary School
Orr Elementary School
Peabody Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens
School-Within-School at Goding
Stoddert Elementary School
Thomson Elementary School
Watkins Elementary School
HONOR ROLL (30 schools)
Aiton Elementary School
Ballou High School
Benjamin Banneker High School
Brent Elementary School
Browne Education Campus
Bruce-Monroe Elementary School
Burrville Elementary School
Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
Columbia Heights Education Campus
Dorothy I. Height Elementary School
Drew Elementary School
Dunbar High School
Eastern High School
J.O. Wilson Elementary School
Lafayette Elementary School
Malcolm X Elementary School @ Green
McKinley Middle School
McKinley Technology High School
Nalle Elementary School
Randle Highlands Elementary School
River Terrace Education Campus
Ron Brown College Preparatory High School
Roosevelt High School
Roosevelt STAY High School
Ross Elementary School
Seaton Elementary School
Truesdell Education Campus
Tubman Elementary School
Wheatley Education Campus
Woodrow Wilson High School
