City of Davis

DAVIS RISE TEAMS UP WITH DAVIS SCHOOLS TO JOIN THE CITY OF DAVIS’
“LOW CARBON DIET CHALLENGE"

Contact:

• Mitch Sears, Sustainability Programs Manager
• 757-5544
• msears@cityofdavis.org

For five weeks, RISE Leaders will document Davis students’ habits of diversion, recycling and reusing as well as collecting “rigid plastics”(plastic resin numbers greater than #1 and #2) that would normally go into the school’s garbage. What makes up 5,000 pounds? Can the schools divert 5,000 pounds of rigid plastic from the landfill?

Each DavisRISE School Leader will create a way to get the rigid plastics to Davis Waste Removal where the plastics will be weighed, to document the impact that this could make on reducing at the landfill as well as the school site. The participating schools will create their own campaigns and methods of collecting and documenting until November 16th. Charts and documenting will provide data for contributing to the Low Carbon Diet.

For more information on Davis RISE, go to http://www.davisrise.org