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needs to show the importance of recycling and reuse of Mylar products.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-15 Joe Mitchell PTO,Garden to Table,Livermore,East County,$2,447.00-Funds from this grant
<br /> will be used to cultivate a school garden,teach students about diverting food scraps from the landfill by composting and
<br /> maintaining a worm bin, students will also germinate and plant seeds,water,weed and mulch,harvest crops, and save
<br /> seeds. Students will also make pots from reusable containers in which to take seedlings home.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-16 Thornton Junior High School,TJHS Recycling and Composting,West County,$1,959.00—
<br /> Funds will be used to purchase recycling and composting bins to start a school wide recycling and composting program.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-17 Altamont Creek Elementary School,Student Council Green Team Articulation,Livermore,
<br /> East County,$2,000.00-This grant will be used to offer one(1)planning meeting per trimester to Student Council
<br /> Lead Teachers interested in planning 4 Rs leadership for the I"through 5"graders selected for Student Council each
<br /> trimester. Interested staff will have planning time,guidance,and education from site leaders.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-18 Keep Oakland Beautiful,OUSD Food Scrap Support,Oakland,West County,$2,625.00—
<br /> Grant funds will be used to purchase specialty vests to identify custodians,teachers,staff members,parents and
<br /> volunteers as they are working in Oakland schools food scrap and paper recycling programs. Vest will also be worn by
<br /> volunteers during Keep Oakland Beautiful projects.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-19 Alameda County Master Gardeners(ACMG),ACMG Demonstration Gardens waste
<br /> reduction,Alameda,West County,$2,210.00-Funds from this grant will be used to purchase a chipper/shredder and
<br /> accessories to be able to convert woody clippings from plants and trees on several maintained properties into compostable
<br /> material on site.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-20 Black Pine Circle School,ECO Station Signage,Berkeley,West County,$300.00- Black Pine
<br /> Circle School maintains"Eco Stations"at three areas around campus. Each station has receptacles for landfill,various
<br /> recycling and compost.The current signage at these locations is deteriorated in need of replacing. Grant funds will be
<br /> used to purchase 3 new 2'X 6' banners and approximately 15 smaller weather proof signs graphically depicting what goes
<br /> in which container.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-21 Mendenhall Middle School, Mendenhall Reduce recycle program,Livermore,East County,
<br /> $1,756.20-Funds from this grant will be used to enhance and expand the schools reduce/reuse/recycle program
<br /> on campus.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-22 City of Oakland Digital Arts and Culinary Academy,Green Diversions,Oakland,West
<br /> County,$2,500.00-Funding from this project will be used to start Green Diversions a program to divert urban waste-
<br /> streams into biological systems to produce edible and useful—and profitably marketable products,while providing an
<br /> excellent example of reuse to hundreds of Oakland youth and more. As part of this project Green Diversion will divert
<br /> brewery mash waste from Linden Street Brewery in West Oakland into high value culinary mushroom production. The
<br /> goal of this project is to establish a stable waste conversion/production cycle and use the system to actively instruct
<br /> Oakland youth and others in this exciting take on composting and reuse.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-23 American High School,From Rags to Rugs(and More),Fremont,West County,
<br /> $1,811.55-Funds from this grant will allow the American High School reuse team the opportunity to
<br /> produce items made from repurposed and discarded items. The reuse team has been invited to
<br /> demonstrate techniques they have developed at the Bay Area Maker Faire, which will give them the
<br /> chance to scale up the teams outreach to thousands of children and adults by teaching these types of reuse
<br /> projects.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-24 Northern California Recycling Association,The Nature of Recyclable Materials: An
<br /> Introductory Course,Berkeley,West County$2.500.00-Funds from this project would be used to develop a one day,
<br /> eight hour class that will spend two hours on each of the four basic material groups(paper,glass,metals and plastics),the
<br /> basic chemical structure of the material and the chemical differences between types of materials within the class,and
<br /> some slightly more than basic understanding of how the material is initially formed and how it is recycled,covering both
<br /> how the materials are processed in final preparation for material reuse after being collected and bundled and how the
<br /> materials react during the manufacturing phase or their life.
<br /> Mini-Grant#: 12-25 Center for Recycling Research,Introduction to Recycling 3r°Edition,Berkeley,West County,
<br /> $3,000.00-Funds from this grant will be used to assist Mr. Boone in rewriting the second edition of INTRODUCTION
<br /> TO RECYCLING,incorporating the new materials that he has prepared in the last five years and to bring the book to the
<br /> attention of a wider student population.
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