The Steam Academy in Mount Vernon recently started the WeFutureCycle recycling program in the lunchroom, teaching students that just by sorting their waste into recycling, compost and trash can reduce garbage by 90+%.

In the lunchroom, the students are somewhat supervised and thus behavior can be modified, guided and enforced. After just one week, most students sort in the lunchroom easily and automatically.

The trick is to see if this behavior translate to other places in their lives without being supervised or encourage and I was very happy to see the hallway recycling stations in that building this morning.